Vitaliy Antonovych Satskyi (Ukrainian: Віталій Антонович Сацький; 22 April 1930 – 26 October 2017) was a Ukrainian politician, director of Zaporizhstal, former metallurgist. He was a member of the Academy of Mining Sciences of Ukraine (1993), the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Ukraine, and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.[2]

Vitaliy Satskyi
HOU, Doctor of Technical Sciences
Віталій Антонович Сацький
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
15 May 1990[1] – 10 May 1994[1]
Director of the Zaporizhstal
In office
1986–2012
Preceded byOleksandr Herasymenko
Succeeded byRostyslav Shurma
Personal details
Born(1930-04-22)April 22, 1930[2]
Polohy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
DiedOctober 26, 2017(2017-10-26) (aged 87)
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
NationalityUkrainian[1]
Political partyCommunist Party of Ukraine
Alma materDnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute[1]
OccupationPolitician, Red director, Metallurgist

Career

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Born in village of Chubarivka[2] (today Polohy), in 1954 Satskyi graduated a technological faculty of the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (today the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine) as engineer-metallurgist.[2]

In 1954 to 1980 he worked at the leading metal producing factory in Ukraine Kryvorizhstal starting from engineer-roller of rolling shop and secretary of the factory's Komsomol Committee to chief engineer and deputy director of Kryvorizhstal in 1968.[2]

In 1980-1983 Satskyi was a director of the All-Union Research and Development Design Institute of Mechanized Labor in Ferrous Metallurgy (Ukrainian: Всесоюзний науково-дослідницький проектно-конструкторський технологічний інститут механізованої праці в чорній металургії) in Dnipropetrovsk or briefly Mekhchormet (Ukrainian: Мехчормет) and in 1983-1986 he was a chief of the Ukrmetalurhprom (Ukrainian: Укрметалургпром, Ukrainian Metallurgy).[2]

In 1986-2012 Satskyi was a director of Zaporizhstal and in 1990-1994 a People's Deputy of Ukraine. On 18 March 1990 he was elected at the Zavodskyi electoral district (#180) of Zaporizhzhia city among eight runners.[1] In 1950-1991 Satskyi was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[1]

On 26 October 2017 he died after an after prolonged illness.[3] At time of death, Satskyi was on the Forbes list of the most rich people in Ukraine with his assets estimated at $128 million.[3]

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