# Heorhiy Mazurashu

Heorhiy Heorhiyovych Mazurashu (Ukrainian: Георгій Георгійович Мазурашу; born 17 April 1971) is a Ukrainian sports journalist and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 203rd electoral district as a member of Servant of the People.

## Early life and career

Heorhiy Heorhiyovych Mazurashu was born on 17 April 1971 in the village of Krupianske, in Ukraine's western Chernivtsi Oblast. In 1990, he graduated from the Chernivtsi Mechanical and Technological College.
In 1995, he graduated from the faculty of history of Chernivtsi University. In 2009, he received a master's degree from the same university, majoring in "Civil Service".

## Sports career

In 1985, he began to engage in athletics. In the 8th grade, he won the regional competition among schoolchildren at a distance of 400 m with a result of 52.9 seconds.
In 1987, he took 1st place in the 800 m at the Spartakiad of Ukraine among technical schools of light industry and won the 800 m at the youth championship of Ukraine with the prizes of Honored Master of Sports Yevhen Arzhanov. In 1988, he won the 800 m + 1,500 m medley at the youth indoor championship of Ukraine. Played as part of the youth national team of Ukraine at the 1988 USSR Youth Indoor Championship in Chisinau.
In 1992, he won the youth championship of Ukraine in indoor athletics, the bronze medalist of the 1st Ukrainian indoor championship.
Winner of the championship of the republican council of the FST "Kolos" among young men, juniors, adults, junior and youth championships of Ukraine, silver and bronze medalist of the Championship of Ukraine among universities (1500 m, 800 m, Kryvyi Rih). Candidate for master of sports.

## Journalistic activity

Until 2005, he worked as an editor of the sports department of the newspaper "Molodyi Bukovynets". In parallel, he collaborated with the publications "Sportyvna gazeta", "Ukrainian football", "Day" and local TV channels.
Until 2005, he published the sports and entertainment publication "Super!".
Member of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine. In 2004, he became a laureate of the competition among journalists "Olympic Ukraine", in 2009 he won the photo contest of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
Until September 2008, he worked as the head of the department for physical culture and sports of the Chernivtsi regional state administration.
In 2009, he initiated the holding of the first Miss Sport Ukraine beauty contest among sportswomen in Ukraine.
Until 2018, he was a member of the executive committee of the Chernivtsi regional branch of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
In 2011, he became the director of the Chernivtsi Regional Center for Physical Health of the Population "Sports for All".

## Political career

In 2015, he was a candidate for deputy of the Chernivtsi Oblast Council from the Samopomich party.
In 2019, he was elected a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party in Ukraine's 203rd electoral district.
He is a member of the Committee on Youth and Sports, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Physical Culture and Mass Sports in the Verkhovna Rada,
In July 2020, he registered in the Verkhovna Rada a draft law "on amendments to the Code of Ukraine on administrative offenses regarding responsibility for propaganda of homosexuality and transgenderism".
In December 2020, he voted against the appointment of Serhiy Skarlet to the position of head of the Ministry of Education and Culture.
In December 2020, he supported the pro-Russian People's Deputy Maksym Buzhanskyi, who proposed to cancel fines for the refusal of employees in the service sector to serve a client in Ukrainian languages in Ukraine.

## Controversies

In May 2022, he became a co-author of the scandalous draft law No. 7351, which was supposed to give the command the right to kill military personnel for disobeying orders without any proven circumstances. This bill was evaluated in the media as an attempt to restore the death penalty in Ukraine.