Heorhiy Kirpa

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Early life and career

Heorhiy Mykolaiovych Kirpa was born on 20 July 1946 in the village of Template:Ill, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, then part of the Soviet Union. As a child, one of his school colleagues was Vasyl Zinkevych, who would later be known as a singer.Template:Sfn From 1965 to 1970 he studied at the Kharkiv Institute of Railway Transport Engineers (now the Template:Ill). He served in the Soviet Army from 1970 to 1971, being stationed in Yaroslavl.Template:Sfn

Political career

Kirpa was one of the most influential members of Leonid Kuchma's government and a supporter of Viktor Yanukovych. He was a high-ranking member of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united),Template:Sfn as well as leader of the Revival party, which had a party membership largely comprising railway workers during his time in office. He did not belong to any clan of Ukrainian oligarchs.Template:Sfn Kirpa was frequently mentioned as a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election,Template:Sfn and Holos Ukrayiny journalist Liudmyla Menzhulina claimed in 2009 that "many were those who said" that if he had ran, he would have won by a large margin in the first round.Template:Sfn

Kirpa's political career was marked by several allegations of corruption; The Kyiv Post noted in an obituary that he oversaw the alleged transfer of Ukrzaliznytsia profits to private companies, and his children were accused by Interpol of using company bank accounts to purchase real estate in Kyiv.Template:Sfn

Ukrzaliznytsia

Kirpa took control of Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine's state-owned railway company, in 2000. That year, Ukrzaliznytsia recorded losses of one billion hryvnias.Template:Sfn At the time, the position of chief executive officer was widely considered to be a political position whose holders were appointed by government officials in order to gain favour with oligarchs, rather than on the basis of their knowledge of railways. Kirpa launched what The New York Times referred to in 2022 as an "ambitious reconstruction program", including the renovation of several stations, the beginning of an express train service, the expansion of electric trams and the introduction of fibre-optic cables.Template:Sfn

Kirpa's work at Ukrzaliznytsia frequently involved billion-dollar mega-projects, including Highway M05, the Bystroye Canal and the New Darnytskyi Bridge, which was colloquially named "Kirpa bridge". Kirpa advocated for the unification of Ukrainian domestic airlines.Template:Sfn Under Kirpa's leadership, Ukrzaliznytsia also was responsible for equipment procurement in fields beyond railways, such as batteries for the submarine Zaporizhzhia. The New York Times wrote that Kirpa allegedly received kickbacks from procurement purchases.Template:Sfn

On 23 April 2002 he was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine.Template:Sfn

Minister of Transportation

Kirpa was appointed as Minister of Transportation by President Leonid Kuchma Template:Circa. News site ForUm wrote after his appointment that he was a reformist, comparing him to Yulia Tymoshenko. ForUm stated that his policies were likely to be opposed by the Ukrainian coal and steel industries, and noted that Volodymyr Boyko, director of the Illich Steel and Iron Works and a fellow For United Ukraine! politician who had opposed Kirpa's tenure at Ukrzaliznytsia, was likely to find more difficulty in opposing him.Template:Sfn

Kirpa's responsibilities as transport minister continued to include extensive public works, including train stations, railways, highways and bridges. He also directed telecommunications as part of his portfolio.Template:Sfn Under Kirpa, air, sea and river transit was expanded and a long-awaited system of bus routes to small villages was established.Template:Sfn

During the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election Kirpa provided 125 trains to the Party of Regions, the Russian Orthodox Church and private companies supportive of Viktor Yanukovych's electoral campaign. These trains were used to spread propaganda against Viktor Yushchenko and transport fraudulent ballots to polling stations,Template:Sfn resulting in as many as over one million extra votes for Yanukovych, according to international monitors. Prior to his death, Kirpa was under investigation as the chief suspect of a voter fraud trial in the 2004 election.Template:Sfn He was additionally accused of having illegally financed Yanukovych's campaign.Template:Sfn

Personal life

Kirpa was married and had two children, a son and a daughter.Template:Sfn He was an avid accordion player.Template:Sfn

Death and legacy

Kirpa died by gunshot wound at his dacha in Bortnychi (the outskirt of Kyiv), on 27 December 2004. The cause of the gunshot is disputed; the official version, confirmed by Ukrainian police in January 2005, was that Kirpa committed suicide.Template:Sfn Kirpa's death was immediately subject to conspiracy theories that he had been either driven to suicide or murdered as part of a cover-up by Kuchma's government, and an investigation was launched two days after his death.Template:Sfn The Kyiv Post posited that Kirpa's death may have been related to his knowledge of the alleged involvement of members of Kuchma's government in crime. The Post wrote that, like Yuriy Kravchenko (another minister who died under mysterious circumstances during the Orange Revolution), Kirpa was considered to be a liability to Kuchma and a potential key witness in investigations of Kuchma's government.Template:Sfn

Volodymyr Sabodan, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), was present at Kirpa's funeral, and a monument to Kirpa in Klubivka was consecrated by Orthodox priests on 20 July 2009; Kirpa had previously overseen the restoration of the village's monastery.Template:Sfn In late December of that year, Southwestern Railways requested that the Kyiv City Council rename Petrozavodsk Street, located in Kyiv's Solomianskyi Raion, to Heorhiy Kirpa Street.Template:Sfn A museum dedicated to Kirpa was established in Klubivka in 2010.Template:Sfn

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