constituency children occupation birth_place religion imagesize party office birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name otherparty alma_mater
industrial district # 369 -lrb- kharkiv -rrb- ? scientist 1981 -rrb- , politician , doctor of technical sciences -lrb- bolshaya ussr troitsa , shebekinsky district , kursk oblast , eastern orthodox -lrb- ukrainian church -rrb- 250px pdvu people 's deputy of ukraine 26 july 1945 may 1990 ? volodymyr hrynyov
 may 1994 volodymyr hrynyov communist -rrb- inter-regional bloc of reforms -lrb- mbr -rrb- party -lrb- bolsheviks -rrb- of ukraine -lrb- kpu kharkiv polytechnical institute
volodymyr hrynyov

volodymyr hrynyov , also hryniov -lrb- ; -rrb- is a ukrainian politician , statesman , former candidate to the president of ukraine .
hrynov was born on july 26 , 1945 in bolshaya troitsa village of kursk oblast -lrb- now belgorod oblast , russia -rrb- .
in 1968 he graduated with honors from the kharkiv polytechnical institute .
in 1972 he defended his candidate dissertation -lrb- phd -rrb- , and in 1981 , his doctoral dissertation .
on march 30 , 1990 he participated in verkhovna rada elections in electoral district no. 170 in kharkiv .
in the first round , none of the five candidates obtained the required 50 % of votes ; in the second round he obtained 53.49 % votes and was elected to the parliament .
in verkhovna rada , hrynov was elected vice-chairmen , in which position he served until his voluntary resignation in june 1993 .
on december 1 , 1991 , hrynov participated in the first presidential elections in ukraine .
he was supported by 1,329,758 voters -lrb- 4.17 % -rrb- , and took fourth place out of six candidates .
in 1993 he became the president of international fund `` business diaspora of ukraine '' .
in the same year he organized the party `` interregional block of reforms '' , of which he was the leader until may 1999 .
on march 27 , 1994 , hrynov participated in the parliamentary elections in the same electoral district in kharkiv .
he obtained less than 50 % of votes in the first round .
in the second round his opponent withdrew from elections , and hrynov obtained 75.64 % .
because hrynov was the only candidate , and the elections required alternatives , hrynov was not recognized as being elected to the parliament .
hrynov attempted to run for the president of ukraine position in the ahead-of-schedule presidential elections of 1994 , but he withdrew in favor of leonid kuchma , who was elected president .
hrynov was appointed as an advisor to the president .
in 1998 hrynov participated in the parliamentary elections as one of the leaders of slon , but his block obtained less than one percent of votes and no seats in the parliament .
over his political career , hrynov had been criticized by opponents for being a liberal , a pro-russian politician , a supporter of the federate system of ukraine , and for changing political preferences too often .
in 2002 , hrynov supported yushchenko , and his our ukraine block , but was not a member of the block himself .
in the 2000s , hrynov was the vice-president of the interregional academy of personnel management -lrb- maup -rrb- .
hrynov is married , has a son and daughter .
he speaks english and german .
he is a sport master in judo , and sambo .
