First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine

First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Перший віце-прем'єр-міністр України
Incumbent Stepan Kubiv since 14 April 2016
Member of	Cabinet of Ministers
Seat	Government Building, Kiev, Ukraine
Nominator	Prime Minister of Ukraine
Appointer	Supreme Council of Ukraine
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	Article 9 (About the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine)
Inaugural holder	Kostiantyn Masyk (since the independence of Ukraine)
Formation	1946 (as First Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers)
Website	www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en

First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of Cabinet of Ukraine. In an absence of the Prime Minister of Ukraine performs his or her duty as the acting Prime Minister of Ukraine. In 1991 the post was grandfathered from the already existing First Deputy Chairman that was part of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

In an absence of the First Vice Prime Minister, his or her functions are performed by other Vice Prime Ministers who are members of the Cabinet of Ministers. Similarly to Prime Minister, all office duties of the First Vice Prime Minister are supported by the Secretariat of Cabinet of Ministers.

Along with other members of Cabinet of Ministers, the newly appointed First Vice Prime Minister takes one and the same oath of office at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to the Article 10 (Law of Ukraine about the Cabinet of Ministers), a member of Cabinet of Ministers (except for the Prime Minister of Ukraine) who refuses to take the oath is considered as such who refused to accept the post. Every newly appointed member of already existing cabinet needs to take the oath at the next plenary session of Verkhovna Rada.

List of First Vice Prime Ministers of Ukraine

Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR

No.	Portrait	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Chairman
1		Oleksandr Tkachenko	07 1990	08 1990		Vitaliy Masol
2		Anatoly Statynov	1990	1990
3		Kostyantyn Masyk	08 1990	1992		Vitold Fokin

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR)

In April of 1991 the Council of Ministers represented by existing government of Vitold Fokin and created by 12th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR was renamed into the Cabinet of Ministers. With adoption of the Act of Independence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian SSR was officially renamed into Ukraine. Because of the 1991 August Putsch in Moscow, the Communist Party was prohibited in Ukraine. In February of 1992 there was adopted the new coat of arms.

No.	Portrait	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Prime Minister(s)
1		Kostyantyn Masyk	08 1990	07 1992		Vitold Fokin
2		Valentyn Symonenko	07 1992	10 1992
3	75px	Ihor Yukhnovskyi	10 1992	03 1993		Leonid Kuchma
4	75px	Yukhym Zvyahilsky	06 1993	07 1994
5	75px	Viktor Pynzenyk	31 10 1994	8 1995		Vitaliy Masol
6		Yevhen Marchuk	1994	Jun 8 1995
7		Pavlo Lazarenko	Sep 1995	May 1996		Yevhen Marchuk
8		Vasyl Durdynets	06 1996	07 1997		Pavlo Lazarenko
9	75px	Anatoly Holubchenko	08 08 1997	01 1998		Valeriy Pustovoitenko
10		Volodymyr Kuratchenko	01 1998	07 1999
11		Anatoliy Kinakh	07 1999	1999
12		Yuriy Yekhanurov	12 1999	05 2001		Viktor Yushchenko
13		Oleh Dubyna	05 2001	11 2002		Anatoliy Kinakh
14		Mykola Azarov	11 2002	04 2005		Viktor Yanukovych
15		Anatoliy Kinakh	08 2005	07 2006		Yulia Tymoshenko
16		Stanislav Stashevsky	04 2005	08 2005		Yuriy Yekhanurov
17		Mykola Azarov	07 2006	12 2007		Viktor Yanukovych
18		Oleksandr Turchynov	12 2007	11 03 2010		Yulia Tymoshenko
19		Andriy Klyuyev	11 03 2010	14 02 2012		Mykola Azarov
20	75px	Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi	14 02 2012	24 12 2012
21		Serhiy Arbuzov	24 12 2012	27 02 2014
22	75px	Vitaly Yarema	27 02 2014	19 06 2014		Arseniy Yatsenyuk
		Stepan Kubiv	14 o4 2016	Incumbent		Volodymyr Groysman

External links

• Law of Ukraine About the Cabinet of Minesters. Verkhovna Rada website