Leonid Kuchma

Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Ukrainian: Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician. He was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005.

Leonid Kuchma
Леонід Кучма
Kuchma in 2001
Representative of Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine
In office 3 June 2019 – 28 July 2020
President	Volodymyr Zelensky
2nd President of Ukraine
In office 19 July 1994 – 23 January 2005
Prime Minister	Vitaliy Masol Yevhen Marchuk Pavlo Lazarenko Valeriy Pustovoitenko Viktor Yushchenko Anatoliy Kinakh Viktor Yanukovych
Preceded by	Leonid Kravchuk
Succeeded by	Viktor Yushchenko
Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office 13 October 1992 – 22 September 1993
President	Leonid Kravchuk
Deputy	Ihor Yukhnovskyi Yukhym Zvyahilsky
Preceded by	Valentyn Symonenko (Acting)
Succeeded by	Yukhym Zvyahilsky (Acting)
General Director of Yuzhmash
In office November 1986 – 13 October 1992
Preceded by	Aleksandr Makarov
Succeeded by	Yuriy Alekseyev
People's Deputy of Ukraine
1st convocation
In office 15 May 1990 – 10 May 1994
Constituency	Communist Party (until August 1991), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, District No.81[1]
People's Deputy of Ukraine
2nd convocation
In office 10 May 1994 – 15 July 1994
Constituency	Independent, Chernihiv Oblast, District No.448[2]
Personal details
Born	Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (1938-08-09) 9 August 1938 Chaikyne, Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Independent 1991–present Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1960–1991
Spouse(s)	Lyudmila Talalayeva
Children	Olena Pinchuk
Alma mater	Dnipropetrovsk National University
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He won the 1994 presidential election against his rival, the incumbent Leonid Kravchuk. Kuchma won re-election for an additional five-year term in 1999.