Oleh Synyutka


Oleh Mykhaylovych Synyutka, is a Ukrainian politician. He is currently serving as the Governor of Lviv Oblast since 26 December 2014..

Biography

Education

Oleh Synyutka was born in 14 February 1970. In 1987, Synyutka entered the first year of the History Department of the Ivano-Frankivsk State Pedagogical Institute. 1988–1989 he served in the Soviet army. In 1993, he graduated from the Precarpathian University as a history teacher.
In 1995, he received a diploma in economics and management at the University of Carpathian. From 1995 to 2001, he held the post of chairman of the JS "Massoyuz", then a year he was the director of the Ivano-Frankivsk AvtoZAZ-Daewoo LLC.

Career

From 2002 to 2006 he was deputy mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk. Since 2006, he became a deputy of the Ivano-Frankivskregional council, in the same year he became director of the department of economic policy of the Lviv City Council. From 2007, he was promoted to a First Deputy Mayor of Lviv. On December 26, 2014, Oleh Synyutka was appointed as the Governor of Lviv Oblast.
On July 25, 2016, during the solemn reburial of five soldiers of the 14th grenadier division of the Waffen SS, Halychyna Synyutka delivered a speech. In it, he stressed that thousands of young guys took up arms in order to drive out the invaders from our land and restore the Ukrainian state. "They, like the UPA soldiers, understood that one can gain independence only on their own, and not rely on Nazis or Bolsheviks," Synyutka added.
In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Synyutka was placed eight on the party list of European Solidarity. He was elected to parliament.

Family

He is married and has 2 children.