Ministry of Youth and Sports (Ukraine)

Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство молоді та спорту України, romanizedMinisterstvo molodi ta sportu Ukrayiny) is a government of Ukraine ministry established on 6 June 1991 after reorganization of the Soviet State Committee of the Ukrainian SSR in affairs of youth and sports. As a ministerial government department, it exists with some breaks since 1991. It was reestablished again in 2013 by splitting away from the Ministry of Education and Science where it existed as its subdepartment in 2010–2013.

Ministry of Youth and Sports (Міністерство молоді та спорту)
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Agency overview
Formed6 June 1991
Preceding agency
  • State Committee of the Ukrainian SSR in affairs of youth and sports
JurisdictionGovernment of Ukraine
Headquarters42, Esplanadna st., Kyiv.[1]
Parent agencyGovernment of Ukraine
Child agencies
  • Department of Youth Policy
  • Department of Olympic sports
  • Department of non-Olympic sports and Physical Culture
WebsiteOfficial Website

The Honcharuk Government (on 29 August 2019) merged the ministry with the Ministry of Culture.[2] But its succeeding Shmyhal Government undid this merge.[3]

The current temporary acting minister is Matviy Bidnyi.

History

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The ministry of youth and sports was first created in 1991 when two state committees of physical culture and sports and another of youth (minor) affairs were merged. In 1996 the organ was split again until 2000. In 2000 the two agencies were merged again along with the state committee of tourism for less than a year. In 2005 the ministry of youth and sports was reestablished again and later was joined with another agency the ministry of family and minors' affairs.

In 1997–2005 the organ was a state committee, in 2010-2013 - a state service.

In 2010 the Government of Ukraine led by Party of Regions in populistic way arrogantly announced about reorganization of its hierarchy making the newly elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych a big reformist when the consolidated ministry was merged again with the Ministry of Education and Science for the next three years, while agency for sports was degraded to the state service of youth and sports. Finally in 2013 the state service again was given the ministerial portfolio.

The agency in charge of tourism was oscillated and renamed in 2001 as the State Tourism Administration and later was transferred to the Ministry of Culture in 2004.

In December 2001 a committee chairman Maria Bulatova in interview to Mirror Weekly explained that since the independence of Ukraine, the provision for the state institution was de facto copy-pasted from similar institution of the Ukrainian SSR and without even considering the fact that its development strategy was forming out of Moscow by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and State Committee of Sport of the Soviet Union.[4]

Leadership

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Heads of Family and Children

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Ministry of Family Affairs and Youth was established in 1996 by merging two committees of Women Affairs, Motherhood, and Minors and another of Youth (Minors) Affairs with Ministry on Youth Affairs and Sports.

Name of Ministry Name of minister Term of Office
Start End
Ministry on Family Affairs and Youth Syuzanna Stanik September 1996 August 1997
Valentyna Dovzhenko 21 August 1997 22 March 1999
State Committee on Family Affairs and Youth 1999 2000
State Committee on Family Affairs and Youth Valentyna Dovzhenko 2001[5] 2004
Ministry on Family Affairs, Children, and Youth 6 February 2004 3 February 2005
Yuriy Pavlenko 4 February 2005 26 February 2005

Heads of Sports

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Name of Ministry Name of minister Term of Office
Start End
Higher Council of Physical Culture Sergei Andreyev 16 May 1935 28 June 1936
Committee of Physical Culture and Sports Sergei Andreyev 28 June 1936 7 September 1936
Mykhailo Bunchuk 1943 1948
Volodymyr Kulyk November 1968 December 1973
Mykhailo Baka December 1973 July 1990
State Committee of Youth, Physical Culture and Sports Valeriy Borzov 1990 1991
Minister on Youth Affairs and Sports 6 June 1991 20 August 1996
State Committee of Physical Culture and Sports[a] 1996 1997
Ivan Fedorenko 26 August 1997 19 June 1999
Alexander Volkov 2 August 1999 10 January 2000
State Committee of Youth Policy, Sports, and Tourism Ivan Fedorenko 14 February 2000 27 November 2000
Valeriy Tsybukh 2001 2001[6][7]
State Committee of Physical Culture and Sports Maria Bulatova[8] November 2001[9] 4 February 2003[9]
Mykola Kostenko 4 February 2003[9] 2005
Minister on Youth Affairs and Sports Yuriy Pavlenko 26 February 2005 18 August 2005
Minister on Family Affairs, Youth, and Sports 18 August 2005 29 November 2006
Viktor Korzh 1 December 2006 18 December 2007
Yuriy Pavlenko 19 December 2007 11 March 2010
Ravil Safiullin 11 March 2010 9 December 2010
State Service of Youth and Sports[b] 9 December 2010 28 February 2013
Minister of Youth and Sports 28 February 2013 27 February 2014
Minister of Youth and Sports Dmytro Bulatov 27 February 2014[10] 2 December 2014
Minister of Youth and Sports Ihor Zhdanov 2 December 2014[11] 29 August 2019
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Volodymyr Borodiansky 29 August 2019 4 March 2020
Minister of Youth and Sports Vadym Gutzeit 4 March 2020[3] 9 November 2023[12]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Part of Ministry on Family Affairs and Youth
  2. ^ Part of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

References

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  1. ^ "Official website of the Cabinet of Ministers. Contacts". 2017.
  2. ^ New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ), Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)
  3. ^ a b "Ukraine's new Cabinet of Ministers".
  4. ^ Vadym Rybalchenko. Selection of correct course is need for the ship of physical education and sports (ВЫБОР ВЕРНОГО КУРСА НУЖЕН КОРАБЛЮ ФИЗИЧЕСКОГО ВОСПИТАНИЯ И СПОРТА). Mirror Weekly. 28 December 2001.
  5. ^ Official document
  6. ^ Official document.
  7. ^ Official document
  8. ^ Fomin, S.K. Maria Bulatova (Булатова Марія Михайлівна). Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. 2016
  9. ^ a b c Mykola Kostenko substituted Maria Bulatova at the post of chairperson of State Committee of Sport (Николай костенко сменил марию булатову на должности председателя госкомспорта). Fakty.ua. 7 February 2003
  10. ^ "Рада Обрала Новий Уряд".
  11. ^ Rada supports coalition-proposed government lineup, Interfax-Ukraine (2 December 2014)
    Rada approves new Cabinet with three foreigners, Kyiv Post (2 December 2014)
    (in Ukrainian) Rada voted the new Cabinet, Ukrayinska Pravda (2 December 2014)
  12. ^ "The Rada fired Minister Gutzeit" (in Ukrainian). Ukrainska Pravda. 9 November 2023. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
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