# Yuriy Kostenko > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yuriy_Kostenko > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yuriy_Kostenko.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Kostenko > Source revision: 1350910575 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Ministry_of_Environmental_Protection_and_Natural_Resources_(Ukraine)) | term_start = 13 October 1992 | term_end = May 1998 | president = {{plainlist| * [Leonid Kravchuk](/source/Leonid_Kravchuk) * Leonid Kuchma }} | prime_minister = {{plainlist| * [Leonid Kuchma](/source/Leonid_Kuchma) * [Vitaliy Masol](/source/Vitaliy_Masol) * [Yevhen Marchuk](/source/Yevhen_Marchuk) * [Pavlo Lazarenko](/source/Pavlo_Lazarenko) * [Valeriy Pustovoitenko](/source/Valeriy_Pustovoitenko) }} | predecessor = [Yuriy Shcherbak](/source/Yuriy_Shcherbak) | successor = [Vasyl Shevchuk](/source/Vasyl_Shevchuk) | office1 = [People's Deputy of Ukraine](/source/People's_Deputy_of_Ukraine) | term_start1 = 23 November 2007 | term_end1 = 12 December 2012 | constituency1 = [NUNS](/source/Our_Ukraine%E2%80%93People's_Self-Defense_Bloc), No. 16 | term_start2 = 15 May 1990 | term_end2 = 25 May 2006 | constituency2 = {{plainlist| * [Kyiv](/source/Kyiv), No. 22 (1990–1994) * Kyiv, No. 23 (1994–1998) * [People's Movement of Ukraine](/source/People's_Movement_of_Ukraine), No. 5 (1998–2002) * Our Ukraine Bloc, No. 4 (2002–2006) }} | predecessor2 = ''Position established'' | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|6|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [Nova Obodivka](/source/Nova_Obodivka), [Ukrainian SSR](/source/Ukrainian_SSR), [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) (now Ukraine) | party = [People's Movement of Ukraine](/source/People's_Movement_of_Ukraine) (1989–1999) | alma_mater = [Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University](/source/Zaporizhzhia_Polytechnic_National_University) }} '''Yuriy Ivanovych Kostenko''' ({{langx|uk|Юрій Іванович Костенко}}; born 6 December 1951{{Cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=22514|title=Our Campaigns - Candidate - Yuriy Kostenko}}) is a [Ukrainian](/source/Ukraine) politician and leader of the [Ukrainian People's Party](/source/Ukrainian_People's_Party).[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](/source/Interfax-Ukraine) (24 October 2009) ==Biography== Kostenko holds a [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) from the [Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University](/source/Zaporizhzhia_Polytechnic_National_University). In 1989, he became one of the founders of [People's Movement of Ukraine](/source/People's_Movement_of_Ukraine) (Rukh) and served as a [People's Deputy of Ukraine](/source/People's_Deputy_of_Ukraine) from 1990 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2012,{{Cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/bios/democracy/bios_kostenko.html |title=Untitled Document |website=[Library of Congress](/source/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 }}{{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 }} and in 2002 as a member of [Our Ukraine](/source/Our_Ukraine_(political_party)).http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/site/dep_eng/Kostenko_Y.HTM{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023}} From 1992 to 1998, he served as the minister of environmental protection. Kostenko was a candidate at the [1999 Ukrainian presidential election](/source/1999_Ukrainian_presidential_election) where he received 2.17% of votes. Kostenko was involved in [Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament](/source/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine), which he later regretted, and in dealing with the aftermath of the [Chernobyl disaster](/source/Chernobyl_disaster).[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/57059/ Kostenko will pick up votes in west, but not in other regions], [Kyiv Post](/source/Kyiv_Post) (14 January 2010) Before the [2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election](/source/2006_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election) Kostenko initiated the creation of a coalition known as [Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch](/source/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](/source/Ivan_Plyushch) joined together the bloc [Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc](/source/Our_Ukraine%E2%80%93People'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. Kostenko was a candidate in the [2010 Ukrainian presidential election](/source/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_election), his party program included recognizing [Ukrainian Insurgent Army](/source/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army) veterans, during the election, he received 0.22% of the votes.{{in lang|uk}} [http://gazeta.ua/index.php?id=324402 ЦВК оприлюднила офіційні результати 1-го туру виборів], Gazeta.ua (25 January 2010) Kostenko's [Ukrainian People's Party](/source/Ukrainian_People's_Party) competed on one single party under "umbrella" party [Our Ukraine](/source/Our_Ukraine_(political_party)) in the [2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election](/source/2012_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election), together with [Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists](/source/Congress_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists); this list won 1.11% of the national votes and no constituencies, and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.{{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](/source/Central_Election_Commission_of_Ukraine){{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}} Kostenko was second the election list of Our Ukraine.{{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](/source/BBC_Ukrainian) (31 July 2012) He did not participate in the [2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election](/source/2014_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election).{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/WP401E?pt001f01=910&lit=75¤t_row=601 Alphabetical Index of candidates in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election], [Central Election Commission (Ukraine)](/source/Central_Election_Commission_(Ukraine)). ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.unp.ua Official website of the Ukrainian People's Party] {{s-start}} {{S-off}} {{Succession box| title=Leader of [Ukrainian People's Party](/source/Ukrainian_People's_Party) | before= | after=[Oleksandr Klymenko](/source/Oleksandr_Ivanovych_Klymenko) | years=1999–2013}} {{S-end}} {{Natural resources ministers of Ukraine}} {{1999 presidential election candidates, Ukraine}} {{2010 presidential election candidates, Ukraine}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kostenko, Yuriy}} Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:Politicians from Vinnytsia Oblast Category:Ukrainian People's Party politicians Category:People's Movement of Ukraine politicians Category:First convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Category:Second convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Category:Third convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Category:Fourth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Category:Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Category:Candidates in the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election Category:Candidates in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election Category:Preservation of natural environment and nuclear safety ministers of Ukraine Category:Preservation of natural environment ministers of Ukraine Category:Zaporizhzhya National Technical University alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Yuriy Kostenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Kostenko) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Kostenko?action=history)). 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