Events in the year 2002 in Ukraine.
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Incumbents
edit- President: Leonid Kuchma
- Prime Minister: Anatoliy Kinakh (until 21 November), Viktor Yanukovych (from 21 November)
Governors
edit- Cherkasy Oblast: Volodymyr Lukyanets (Independent)
- Chernihiv Oblast: Mykola Butko (until November 15), Valentyn Melnychuk (starting November 15) (Independent)
- Chernivtsi Oblast: Teofil Bauer (until July 29), Mykhailo Romaniv (starting July 29) (Independent)
- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast: Oleksandr Shvets (Independent)
- Donetsk Oblast: Viktor Yanukovych (until November 21), Anatoliy Blyznyuk (starting November 23) (Independent)
- Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast: Mykhailo Vyshyvanyuk (Independent)
- Kharkiv Oblast: Yevhen Kushnaryov (Independent)
- Kherson Oblast: Oleksandr Verbytskyi (until May 21), Anatoliy Yurchenko (starting May 21) (Independent)
- Khmelnytskyi Oblast: Viktor Lundyshev (until July 12), Mykola Shpak (starting July 12) (Independent)
- Kirovohrad Oblast: Vasyl Motsnyi (Independent)
- Kyiv Oblast: Anatoliy Zasukha (Independent)
- Luhansk Oblast: Oleksandr Yefremov (Independent)
- Lviv Oblast: Mykhailo Gladiy (until April 26), Myron Yankiv (starting April 26) (Independent)
- Mykolaiv Oblast: Oleksiy Harkusha (Independent)
- Odesa Oblast: Serhiy Hrynevetskyi (Independent)
- Poltava Oblast: Yevhen Tomin (Independent)
- Rivne Oblast: Mykola Soroka (Independent)
- Sumy Oblast: Volodymyr Shcherban (Independent)
- Ternopil Oblast: Vasily Bazilyuk (until April 26), Ivan Kurnytskyi (starting April 26) (Independent)
- Vinnytsia Oblast: Yuriy Ivanov (Independent)
- Volyn Oblast: Borys Klimchuk (until June 12), Anatoliy Francevych (starting June 12) (Independent)
- Zakarpattia Oblast: Hennadiy Moskal (until September 27), Ivan Rijak (starting September 27) (Independent)
- Zaporizhzhia Oblast: Serhiy Sakhno (until March 26), Yevhen Kartashov (starting March 26) (Independent)
- Zhytomyr Oblast: Serhiy Ryzhuk (until May 19), Mykola Rudchenko (starting May 19) (Independent)
Events
edit- 27 July – A Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 piloted by Volodymyr Toponar and co-piloted by Yuriy Yegorov crashed during an aerobatics presentation at Sknyliv airfield near Lviv, killing 77 people and injured 543, 100 of whom were hospitalized, making it the deadliest air show accident in history.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Deaths
edit- Nikolai Amosov, medical doctor (12 December)
- Valeriy Lobanovskyi, football player and manager (13 May)
- George Shevelov, linguist (12 April)
References
edit- ↑ Stepanenko, Svetlana (August 21, 2002). "Deadly Performance. Ukrainian Militarys Prestige Crashes on Lvov Airfield". The Current Digest of the Russian Press. 54 (30): 16. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
Debris from the exploding SU-27 sprayed across the field for a distance of about 100 meters. As of yesterday, 83 people (19 of them children) were dead, and more than 100 were taken to the hospital with head injuries, burns and fractures.
- ↑ "EVXpress – Deadly Performance. Ukrainian Militarys Prestige Crashes on Lvov Airfield – The Current Digest of the Russian Press, 2002, No. 30, Vol. 54". dlib.eastview.com. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
- ↑ Kirillov, Roman (July 27, 2005). "Pilots Convicted for Disaster During Air Show". The Current Digest of the Russian Press. 56 (26): 9–10. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
While performing an aerobatic maneuver, an SU-27 jet crashed into a crowd of spectators, leaving 77 people dead and another 543 injured. The commander of the plane's crew, Vladimir Toponar, was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison, and copilot Yury Yegorov got eight years
- ↑ Kozyrieva, Tetiana (8 September 2009). "Two Sknyliv boys seven years later". The Day. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ↑ "Ukrainian, Russian papers assess plane crashes". Jul 30, 2002. Retrieved Mar 14, 2021 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "Ukraine crash report blames pilots". BBC News. 7 August 2002.