# Ministry of Youth and Sports (Ukraine)

Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство молоді та спорту України, romanized: Ministerstvo molodi ta sportu Ukrayiny) is a government of Ukraine ministry established on 6 June 1991 after reorganization of the Soviet State Committee of the Ukrainian SSR in affairs of youth and sports. As a ministerial government department, it exists with some breaks since 1991. It was reestablished again in 2013 by splitting away from the Ministry of Education and Science where it existed as its subdepartment in 2010–2013.
The Honcharuk Government (on 29 August 2019) merged the ministry with the Ministry of Culture. But its succeeding Shmyhal Government undid this merge.
The current minister is Matviy Bidnyi.

## History

The ministry of youth and sports was first created in 1991 when two state committees of physical culture and sports and another of youth (minor) affairs were merged. In 1996 the organ was split again until 2000. In 2000 the two agencies were merged again along with the state committee of tourism for less than a year. In 2005 the ministry of youth and sports was reestablished again and later was joined with another agency the ministry of family and minors' affairs.
In 1997–2005 the organ was a state committee, in 2010-2013 - a state service.
In 2010 the Government of Ukraine led by Party of Regions in populistic way arrogantly announced about reorganization of its hierarchy making the newly elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych a big reformist when the consolidated ministry was merged again with the Ministry of Education and Science for the next three years, while agency for sports was degraded to the state service of youth and sports. Finally in 2013 the state service again was given the ministerial portfolio.
The agency in charge of tourism was oscillated and renamed in 2001 as the State Tourism Administration and later was transferred to the Ministry of Culture in 2004.
In December 2001 a committee chairman Maria Bulatova in interview to Mirror Weekly explained that since the independence of Ukraine, the provision for the state institution was de facto copy-pasted from similar institution of the Ukrainian SSR and without even considering the fact that its development strategy was forming out of Moscow by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and State Committee of Sport of the Soviet Union.

## Leadership
### Heads of Family and Children

Ministry of Family Affairs and Youth was established in 1996 by merging two committees of Women Affairs, Motherhood, and Minors and another of Youth (Minors) Affairs with Ministry on Youth Affairs and Sports.
| Name of Ministry | Name of minister | Term of Office | Term of Office |
| Name of Ministry | Name of minister | Start | End |
| Ministry on Family Affairs and Youth | Syuzanna Stanik | September 1996 | August 1997 |
| Ministry on Family Affairs and Youth | Valentyna Dovzhenko | 21 August 1997 | 22 March 1999 |
| State Committee on Family Affairs and Youth | Valentyna Dovzhenko | 1999 | 2000 |
| State Committee on Family Affairs and Youth | Valentyna Dovzhenko | 2001 | 2004 |
| Ministry on Family Affairs, Children, and Youth | Valentyna Dovzhenko | 6 February 2004 | 3 February 2005 |
| Ministry on Family Affairs, Children, and Youth | Yuriy Pavlenko | 4 February 2005 | 26 February 2005 |

### Heads of Sports

| Name of Ministry | Name of minister | Term of Office | Term of Office |
| Name of Ministry | Name of minister | Start | End |
| Higher Council of Physical Culture | Sergei Andreyev | 16 May 1935 | 28 June 1936 |
| Committee of Physical Culture and Sports | Sergei Andreyev | 28 June 1936 | 7 September 1936 |
| Committee of Physical Culture and Sports | Mykhailo Bunchuk | 1943 | 1948 |
| Committee of Physical Culture and Sports | Volodymyr Kulyk | November 1968 | December 1973 |
| Committee of Physical Culture and Sports | Mykhailo Baka | December 1973 | July 1990 |
| State Committee of Youth, Physical Culture and Sports | Valeriy Borzov | 1990 | 1991 |
| Minister on Youth Affairs and Sports | Valeriy Borzov | 6 June 1991 | 20 August 1996 |
| State Committee of Physical Culture and Sports | Valeriy Borzov | 1996 | 1997 |
| State Committee of Physical Culture and Sports | Ivan Fedorenko | 26 August 1997 | 19 June 1999 |
| State Committee of Physical Culture and Sports | Alexander Volkov | 2 August 1999 | 10 January 2000 |
| State Committee of Youth Policy, Sports, and Tourism | Ivan Fedorenko | 14 February 2000 | 27 November 2000 |
| State Committee of Youth Policy, Sports, and Tourism | Valeriy Tsybukh | 2001 | 2001 |
| State Committee of Physical Culture and Sports | Maria Bulatova | November 2001 | 4 February 2003 |
| State Committee of Physical Culture and Sports | Mykola Kostenko | 4 February 2003 | 2005 |
| Minister on Youth Affairs and Sports | Yuriy Pavlenko | 26 February 2005 | 18 August 2005 |
| Minister on Family Affairs, Youth, and Sports | Yuriy Pavlenko | 18 August 2005 | 29 November 2006 |
| Minister on Family Affairs, Youth, and Sports | Viktor Korzh | 1 December 2006 | 18 December 2007 |
| Minister on Family Affairs, Youth, and Sports | Yuriy Pavlenko | 19 December 2007 | 11 March 2010 |
| Minister on Family Affairs, Youth, and Sports | Ravil Safiullin | 11 March 2010 | 9 December 2010 |
| State Service of Youth and Sports | Ravil Safiullin | 9 December 2010 | 28 February 2013 |
| Minister of Youth and Sports | Ravil Safiullin | 28 February 2013 | 27 February 2014 |
| Minister of Youth and Sports | Dmytro Bulatov | 27 February 2014 | 2 December 2014 |
| Minister of Youth and Sports | Ihor Zhdanov | 2 December 2014 | 29 August 2019 |
| Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports | Volodymyr Borodiansky | 29 August 2019 | 4 March 2020 |
| Minister of Youth and Sports | Vadym Gutzeit | 4 March 2020 | 9 November 2023 |