{{Short description|Ukrainian politician}} {{Family name hatnote|Vyacheslavovych|Chornovil|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox candidate |name = Andriy Chornovil |image = |alt = |caption = |candidate = |election_date = |opponent = |incumbent = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|6|21|df=y}} |birth_place = Lvov, Lvov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |death_date = |death_place = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |birth_name = |citizenship = |party = |other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> |spouse = |partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> |relations = |children = 1 |alma_mater = Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University |occupation = Docent of the Department of infectious disease<br />Member of the Lviv Regional Council |profession = |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |signature = |signature_alt = |website = |footnotes = |blank1 = |data1 = |blank2 = |data2 = |blank3 = |data3 = |blank4 = |data4 = |blank5 = |data5 = <!--Military service--> |nickname = |allegiance = Soviet Union |branch = Armed Forces |service_years = 1988–1990 |rank = Captain |unit = in Kaliningrad Oblast |commands = |battles = |awards = |military_blank1 = Military occupation |military_data1 = doctor/chief of regiment medical section |military_blank2 = |military_data2 = |military_blank3 = |military_data3 = |military_blank4 = |military_data4 = |military_blank5 = |military_data5 = }}
'''Andriy Vyacheslavovych Chornovil''' ({{langx|uk|Андрій В'ячеславович Чорновіл}}; born 21 June 1962) is a Ukrainian politician and pediatrician who was a self-nominated candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Poll shows Ukrainian premier leading opposition candidate|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=105B431BD9CE893B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|accessdate=11 February 2011|newspaper=Interfax-Ukraine news agency via BBC|date=12 October 2004}}</ref> In the election he collected over 36,000 votes, placing 11th place.
== Family == He is the elder son of the famous Ukrainian dissident and a leader of People's Movement of Ukraine, Vyacheslav Chornovil and his first wife Iryna Brunevets. According to Vyacheslav's longtime press secretary, Dmytro Ponamarchuk, Andriy and his father had been estranged prior to Vyacheslav's death as he had not spoken to his father for 15 years, although Ponamarchuk never gave an explanation as to why.<ref>{{cite news |title=Понамарчук: Чорновіл забороняв мені пускати його сина Тараса в "Рух-прес". Чому? Не скажу. Зі старшим сином Андрієм стосунків у нього теж не було |url=https://gordonua.com/ukr/news/politics/ponamarchuk-chornovil-zaboronjav-meni-puskati-jogo-sina-tarasa-v-ruh-pres-chomu-ne-skazhu-zi-starshim-sinom-andrijem-vidnosin-u-nogo-tezh-ne-bulo-224820.html |access-date=25 January 2026 |work=Гордон {{!}} Gordon |date=1 January 2018 |language=uk}}</ref> Andriy has a brother, Taras Chornovil.
== Early life == Andriy Chornovil was born on 21 June 1962 in the city of Lviv, which was then part of Lviv Oblast in the Ukrainian SSR.<ref name="rd">{{cite news |title=Чорновіл Андрій В{{'}}'ячеславович |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/918494.html |access-date=25 January 2026 |work=Радіо Свобода |date=5 February 2008 |language=uk}}</ref> In 1979, he graduated from Lviv Secondary School N63, and afterwards he worked as a laborer at a collective farm in Kurovychi and as a loader at Lviv Canteen Trust N1.<ref name="rd" /> He pivoted to medicine in 1980, entering the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, and also started working as a nurse at the Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital.<ref name="rd" /> He graduated from the university in 1986.<ref name="rd" /> Chornovil then completed an internship as an infectious disease doctor at the Volyn Regional Hospital and was then a doctor at the central district hospital of Ivanychi in Volyn.<ref name="rd" />
== Political career == Andriy Chornovil is a deputy of Lviv regional council.<ref>{{cite news|title=Five more presidential candidates registered in Ukraine|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1042A1CF3A7348E0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|accessdate=11 February 2011|newspaper=Era (Kiev) via BBC|date=28 July 2004}}</ref> Since June 2004 he has been an Assistant Professor of Infection Illnesses at the National Medical University of Lviv. From 2002 to 2003, he was a leading expert at the board of health care of the Lviv Regional State Administration, and a senior inspector of Western regional customs.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vp2004/wp0011 Profile at the Central Election Commission]
{{2004 presidential election candidates, Ukraine}}
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