Vasyl Vovkun

Vasyl Vovkun
Василь Вовкун
Vovkun in 2007
Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine
In office
18 December 2007 – 11 March 2010
Preceded byYuriy Bohutsky
Succeeded byMykhailo Kulyniak[1]
Personal details
Born (1957-06-16) 16 June 1957 (age 68)
Matsoshyn, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
PartyOur Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc[2]
OccupationTheatre producer and scriptwriter

Vasyl Volodymyrovych Vovkun (Ukrainian: Василь Володимирович Вовкун; born 16 June 1957) was Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine in the second Tymoshenko Government.

Biography

Vovkun was born on 16 June 1957 in the village of Matsoshyn, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[3] In 1976, he graduated from the theatre arts studio at the Zankovetska Lviv State Academical Drama Theatre and also later the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1981.[3]

From 1981 he performed on stage of the Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theatre and from 1989 until 1994 he was an actor at Kyiv studio-theatre "Budmo!".[3] In 1994 he became production director of the Ukrainian State Centre of the Cultural Initiatives, which he did until 2003.[3] He is also the Artistic Director of the Production Workshop "Artistic Agency Art Veles" from 1995 and from 2003 the General Producer of the Kyiv Festival (until 2004 – Britten Kyiv Festival).[4] As a creative director, he participated in numerous Ukrainian festivals, which were marked by ritual-like productions like Oedipus Rex.[3]

Duuring his time as Minister of Culture, he extensively lamented that most of the budget for the ministry went to salaries and next to none of it went to development funding and instead the funding was being drastically cut.[5] He proposed reforms to allow for culture to earn revenue such as tourism licensing, and proposed a Concept for the Development of Ukrainian Culture and Law on Protecting the Ukrainian Information Space.[5][6] He was an advocate for mandatory Ukrainian dubbing of all foreign films, including Soviet ones, for which he was accused of "forced Ukrainization", which he rejected.[5]

In 2017, he was appointed General and Artistic Director of the Lviv National Opera, which he won through a competitive selection process.[7]

References

  1. ^ VR approved structure of Cabinet of Ministers (update), UNIAN (March 11, 2010)
  2. ^ Culture And Tourism Minister Vovkun Sees His Dismissal As Possible. Ukrainian News Agency (March 13, 2009)
  3. ^ a b c d e Івасюк, О. М. (12 December 2005). "Вовкун Василь Володимирович". Енциклопедія Сучасної України (in Ukrainian). Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  4. ^ VASYL VOVKUN – CULTURE AND TOURISM MINISTER OF UKRAINE, UKRINFORM (December 18, 2007)
  5. ^ a b c "«Василь Вовкун: Ми не відмовимося від дублювання радянських фільмів» - Интервью // СЕЙЧАС". Seychas. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  6. ^ "Василь Вовкун: Українська культура має пласти, з якими може виходити у європейський культурний простір". Zik. 6 February 2005. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  7. ^ "Василь Вовкун став керівником Львівської опери". Голос України. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasyl_Vovkun