{{short description|Ukrainian politician}} {{Other uses|Kostenko}} {{Family name hatnote|Ivanovych|Kostenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Yuriy Kostenko | native_name = {{nobold|Юрій Костенко}} | native_name_lang = uk | image = Wp yuriy kostenko.jpg | caption = Kostenko in 2009 | office = Minister of Natural Environment Protection | term_start = 13 October 1992 | term_end = May 1998 | president = {{plainlist| * Leonid Kravchuk * Leonid Kuchma }} | prime_minister = {{plainlist| * Leonid Kuchma * Vitaliy Masol * Yevhen Marchuk * Pavlo Lazarenko * Valeriy Pustovoitenko }} | predecessor = Yuriy Shcherbak | successor = Vasyl Shevchuk | office1 = People's Deputy of Ukraine | term_start1 = 23 November 2007 | term_end1 = 12 December 2012 | constituency1 = NUNS, No. 16 | term_start2 = 15 May 1990 | term_end2 = 25 May 2006 | constituency2 = {{plainlist| * Kyiv, No. 22 <small>(1990–1994)</small> * Kyiv, No. 23 <small>(1994–1998)</small> * People's Movement of Ukraine, No. 5 <small>(1998–2002)</small> * Our Ukraine Bloc, No. 4 <small>(2002–2006)</small> }} | predecessor2 = ''Position established'' | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|6|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Nova Obodivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | party = People's Movement of Ukraine (1989–1999) | alma_mater = Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University }}

'''Yuriy Ivanovych Kostenko''' ({{langx|uk|Юрій Іванович Костенко}}; born 6 December 1951<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=22514|title=Our Campaigns - Candidate - Yuriy Kostenko}}</ref>) is a Ukrainian politician and leader of the Ukrainian People's Party.<ref name=C2010>[http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/22876/ Ukrainian People’s Party nominates its leader Kostenko for president] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027034233/http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/22876/ |date=October 27, 2009 }}, Interfax-Ukraine (24 October 2009)</ref>

==Biography== Kostenko holds a Ph.D. from the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University. In 1989, he became one of the founders of People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) and served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2012,<ref name=minister>{{Cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/bios/democracy/bios_kostenko.html |title=Untitled Document |website=Library of Congress |access-date=2017-12-29 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054832/http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/bios/democracy/bios_kostenko.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pravda.com.ua/en/news/2007/11/5/9329.htm |title=The Makeup of the New Verkhovna Rada / Ukrayinska Pravda |access-date=June 11, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317182108/http://www.pravda.com.ua/en/news/2007/11/5/9329.htm |archive-date=2008-03-17 }}</ref> and in 2002 as a member of Our Ukraine.<ref>http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/site/dep_eng/Kostenko_Y.HTM{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}<nowiki/>{{Dead link|date=December 2023}}</ref> From 1992 to 1998, he served as the minister of environmental protection.<ref name=minister/> Kostenko was a candidate at the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election where he received 2.17% of votes.<ref name=C2010/> Kostenko was involved in Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament, which he later regretted, and in dealing with the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.<ref name=nuclear>[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/57059/ Kostenko will pick up votes in west, but not in other regions], Kyiv Post (14 January 2010)</ref>

Before the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kostenko initiated the creation of a coalition known as Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch who has acquired 1.9% of the vote and did not exceed the 3% threshold of the election.

In July 2007 Kostenko and Ivan Plyushch joined together the bloc Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc and both got re-elected as People's Deputy of Ukraine. Unlike many allies of Yushchenko, Kostenko did not defect from the Our Ukraine grouping in parliament.<ref name=nuclear/>

Kostenko was a candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, his party program included recognizing Ukrainian Insurgent Army veterans,<ref name=nuclear/> during the election, he received 0.22% of the votes.<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://gazeta.ua/index.php?id=324402 ЦВК оприлюднила офіційні результати 1-го туру виборів], Gazeta.ua (25 January 2010)</ref>

Kostenko's Ukrainian People's Party competed on one single party under "umbrella" party Our Ukraine in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, together with Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists; this list won 1.11% of the national votes and no constituencies, and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.<ref name=Ukrelct2012resCECU>{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp300pt001f01=900.html Proportional votes] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030000000/http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp300pt001f01=900.html |date=October 30, 2012 }} & [http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp039pt001f01=900.html Constituency seats] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105073259/http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp039pt001f01=900.html |date=November 5, 2012 }}, Central Election Commission of Ukraine</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ukranews.com/uk/news/ukraine/2012/07/31/75903|title=НУ, УНП и КУН объединились в "Союз патриотических сил" для участия в выборах|date=31 July 2012}}</ref> Kostenko was second the election list of Our Ukraine.<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/politics/2012/07/120731_nasha_ukraina_election_list_sd "Наша Україна" хоче бути альтернативою усім учасникам виборів ''"Our Ukraine" wants to be an alternative to all election participants ''], BBC Ukrainian (31 July 2012)</ref> He did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/WP401E?pt001f01=910&lit=75&current_row=601 Alphabetical Index of candidates in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election], Central Election Commission (Ukraine).</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.unp.ua Official website of the Ukrainian People's Party]

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