Volodymyr Viktorovych Moroz (; 24 October 1967 – 21 April 2025) was a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as a

People's Deputy of Ukraine A people's deputy of Ukraine (, ) is a member of parliament and legislator elected by Direct election, popular vote to the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine. They are often referred to simply as "deputies". Prior to 1991, the Verkhovna R ...

from Ukraine's 59th electoral district from 29 August 2019 until his death. Elected as member of

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, he later become a member of

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from 2022.

Background

Volodymyr Viktorovych Moroz was born on 24 October 1967 in the city of

Kurakhove Kurakhove (, ; , ) is a city in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Population: 21,479 (2001). Kurakhove is home to the Kurakhove Power Station. The city has been under Russian occupation since December 2024, the power station s ...

in the

Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast, also referred to as Donechchyna (, ), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 million residents. Its capital city, administrative centre is Donetsk, though d ...

of what was then the

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. From 1988 to 1992, he worked at Kurakhove Power Station before working as a welder at the "Ecology" company in Kurakhove. In 1997, he became deputy supply director at the Kurakhove-based company DonAhroServis ATZT, and in 2000 he moved to KurakhovEnerhoBud BMU, where he served as deputy director. Moroz left KurakhovEnerhoBud in 2005 to work at PromEnerhoBud TOV, where he also served as deputy director. In 1996, Moroz graduated from the with a specialisation in "heating gas supply, and air pool protection". He also graduated from the in 2005, specialising in economic entrepreneurship. Moroz died on 21 April 2025, at the age of 57.

Political career

From 2010 to 2014, Moroz was deputy head of the Kurakhove City Council for housing and communal arrangements and city improvement. From 2014 to 2019, he was head of the

Marinka Raion Marinka Raion (; ) was a raion (district) of Donetsk Oblast (province) located in eastern Ukraine from 1923 to 2020. Its administrative center was the city of Marinka. The last estimate of the raion population was History The district was crea ...

administration. At the same time, he was head of the

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in Marinka Raion. Moroz ran in the

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as the candidate of

(OPZZh) for

from Ukraine's 59th electoral district. He was successfully elected, defeating incumbent People's Deputy Serhii Sazhko with 31.16% of the vote to Sazhko's 21.48%.

People's Deputy of Ukraine

In the

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(Ukraine's parliament), Moroz joined the faction of OPZZh, as well as the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Housing and Communal Service and the Verkhovna Rada Energy Committee. In August 2020, Moroz was one of 47 People's Deputies to bring the matter of electronic income declarations to the

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. As a result of the efforts of Moroz and the other deputies, the Constitutional Court chose to abolish electronic income declarations. In 2022, following the beginning of the

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and the banning of pro-Russian parties by the government of Ukraine, Moroz joined the

party, made up of former members of OPZZh. The same year, he was among the proponents of a law to prevent local-level lawmakers from being deprived of their mandates due to membership in the OPZZh or other pro-Russian parties.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moroz, Volodymyr 1967 births 2025 deaths Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Opposition Platform — For Life politicians People from Kurakhove