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First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine

{{Short description|Position in the Ukrainian government}}

{{Infobox Political post

| post = First Deputy Prime Minister

| body = Ukraine
Перший віце-прем'єр-міністр України

| insignia = Lesser Coat of Arms of Ukraine.svg

| insigniasize = 100px

| insigniacaption =

| termlength = No fixed term

| image = Yulia Svyrydenko.jpg

| incumbent = Yulia Svyrydenko

| incumbentsince = 4 November 2021

| nominator = Prime Minister of Ukraine

| appointer = Supreme Council of Ukraine

| member_of = Cabinet of Ministers

| seat = Government Building, Kyiv, Ukraine

| constituting_instrument = Article 9 (About the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine)

| precursor =

| formation = 1946 (as First Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers)

| succession =

| inaugural = Kostiantyn Masyk (since the independence of Ukraine)

| deputy =

| website = [http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en/ www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en]

}}

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of the Cabinet of Ukraine. In the absence of the prime minister of Ukraine, the first vice prime minister performs his or her duties{{efn|group=1|Article 17, paragraph 2, Law of Ukraine about Cabinet of Ministers}} as the acting prime minister. In 1991, the post was grandfathered from the already existing first deputy chairman that was part of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

In an absence of the first vice prime minister, his or her functions are performed by other vice prime ministers who are members of the Cabinet of Ministers. Similarly to the prime minister, all official duties of the first vice prime minister are supported by the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Along with other members of the Cabinet of Ministers, a newly appointed first vice prime minister takes the same oath of office at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine about the Cabinet of Ministers, a member of the Cabinet of Ministers (except the prime minister) who refuses to take the oath is considered to have refused to accept the post. Every newly appointed member of an already existing cabinet needs to take the oath at the next plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada.

List of first deputy prime ministers of Ukraine

=Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR=

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No.

! Portrait

! Name

! Took office

! Left office

! colspan="2"|Chairman

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|75px

| Oleksandr Tkachenko

|July 1990

|August 1990

| rowspan=2 style="background:#D00000;" |

| rowspan=2 | Vitaliy Masol

style="background: #D00000;" | {{color|Black|2}}

|

| Anatoly Statynov

|1990

|1990

style="background: #D00000;" | {{color|Black|3}}

|75px

| Kostyantyn Masyk

|August 1990

|1992

| rowspan=1 style="background:#D00000;" |

| rowspan=1 | Vitold Fokin

=Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine=

In April 1991 the Council of Ministers represented by existing government of Vitold Fokin and created by 12th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR was renamed into the Cabinet of Ministers. With adoption of the Act of Independence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian SSR was officially renamed into Ukraine. Because of the 1991 August Putsch in Moscow, the Communist Party was prohibited in Ukraine. In February 1992 there was adopted the new coat of arms.

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No.

! Portrait

! Name

! Took office

! Left office

! colspan="2"|Prime minister(s)

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|75px

| Kostyantyn Masyk

|August 1990

|July 1992

| rowspan=2 style="background:#EEEEEE;" |

| rowspan=2 | Vitold Fokin

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|75px

| Valentyn Symonenko

|July 1992

|October 1992

style="background: #545AA7;" | {{color|Black|3}}

|75px

| Ihor Yukhnovskyi

|October 1992

|March 1993

| rowspan=2 style="background:#EEEEEE;" |

| rowspan=2 | Leonid Kuchma

style="background: #EEEEEE;" | {{color|Black|4}}

|75px

| Yukhym Zvyahilsky

|June 1993

|July 1994

style="background: #EEEEEE;" | {{color|Black|5}}

|75px

| Viktor Pynzenyk

|31 October 1994

|August 1995

| rowspan=2 style="background:#EEEEEE;" |

| rowspan=2 | Vitaliy Masol

style="background: #EEEEEE;" | {{color|Black|6}}

|75px

| Yevhen Marchuk

|1994

|8 June 1995

style="background: #FADA5E;" | {{color|Black|7}}

|75px

| Pavlo Lazarenko

|September 1995

|May 1996

| rowspan=1 style="background:#EEEEEE;" |

| rowspan=1 | Yevhen Marchuk

style="background: #EEEEEE;" | {{color|Black|8}}

|75px

| Vasyl Durdynets

|June 1996

|July 1997

| rowspan=1 style="background:#FADA5E;" |

| rowspan=1 | Pavlo Lazarenko

style="background: #EEEEEE;" | {{color|Black|9}}

|75px

| Anatoliy Holubchenko

|8 August 1997

|January 1998

| rowspan=3 style="background:#CCFFCC;" |

| rowspan=3 | Valeriy Pustovoitenko

style="background: #EEEEEE;" | {{color|Black|10}}

|75px

| Volodymyr Kuratchenko

|January 1998

|July 1999

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|75px

| Anatoliy Kinakh

|July 1999

|1999

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|75px

| Yuriy Yekhanurov

|December 1999

|May 2001

| rowspan=1 style="background:#EEEEEE;" |

| rowspan=1 | Viktor Yushchenko

style="background: #EEEEEE;" | {{color|Black|13}}

|75px

| Oleh Dubyna

|May 2001

|November 2002

| rowspan=1 style="background:#CCFFFF;" |

| rowspan=1 | Anatoliy Kinakh

style="background: {{party color|Party of Regions}};" | {{color|Black|14}}

|75px

| Mykola Azarov

|November 2002

|April 2005

| rowspan=1 style="background:{{party color|Party of Regions}};" |

| rowspan=1 | Viktor Yanukovych

style="background: #CCFFFF};" | {{color|Black|15}}

|75px

| Anatoliy Kinakh

|August 2005

|July 2006

| rowspan=1 style="background:{{party color|Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc}};" |

| rowspan=1 | Yulia Tymoshenko

style="background:{{party color|Our Ukraine}};" | {{color|Black|16}}

|75px

| Stanislav Stashevsky

|April 2005

|August 2005

| rowspan=1 style="background:{{party color|Our Ukraine}};" |

| rowspan=1 | Yuriy Yekhanurov

style="background: {{party color|Party of Regions}};" | {{color|Black|17}}

|75px

| Mykola Azarov

|July 2006

|December 2007

| rowspan=1 style="background:{{party color|Party of Regions}};" |

| rowspan=1 | Viktor Yanukovych

style="background: {{party color|Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc}};" | {{color|Black|18}}

|75px

| Oleksandr Turchynov

|December 2007

|11 March 2010

| rowspan=1 style="background:{{party color|Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc}};" |

| rowspan=1 | Yulia Tymoshenko

style="background:{{party color|Party of Regions}};" | {{color|Black|19}}

|75px

| Andriy Klyuyev

|11 March 2010

|14 February 2012

| rowspan=3 style="background:{{party color|Party of Regions}};" |

| rowspan=3 | Mykola Azarov

style="background:{{party color|Party of Regions}};" | {{color|Black|20}}

|75px

| Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi

|14 February 2012

|24 December 2012

style="background:{{party color|Party of Regions}};" | {{color|Black|21}}

|75px

| Serhiy Arbuzov

|24 December 2012

|27 February 2014

style="background:{{party color|Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc}};" | {{color|Black|22}}

|75px

| Vitaly Yarema

|27 February 2014

|19 June 2014[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/210045.html MPs agree to Yarema's appointment as prosecutor general], Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2014)

| rowspan=1 style="background:{{party color|Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc}};" |

| rowspan=1 | Arseniy Yatsenyuk

style="background: {{party color|Petro Poroshenko Bloc}};" | {{color|Black|23}}

|75px

| Stepan Kubiv[http://www.unian.info/politics/1319232-new-cabinet-formed-in-ukraine.html New Cabinet formed in Ukraine], UNIAN (14 April 2016)

|14 April 2016

|29 August 2019

| rowspan=1 style="background:{{party color|Petro Poroshenko Bloc}};" |

| rowspan=1 | Volodymyr Groysman

style="background: #CCFFFF};" | {{color|Black|24}}

|75px

|Oleksiy Liubchenko

|20 May 2021[https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/745255.html Rada appoints Liubchenko as First Dpty PM, Minister of Economy – 293 affirmative votes], Interfax-Ukraine (21 May 2021)

|3 November 2021[https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/777273.html Rada dismisses Liubchenko from post of First Dpty PM, Economy Minister], Interfax-Ukraine (3 November 2021)

| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE;" |

| rowspan="2" |Denys Shmyhal

style="background: #CCFFFF};" | {{color|Black|25}}

|75px

|Yulia Svyrydenko

|4 November 2021[https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/777584.html Rada appoints Svyrydenko as First Dpty PM, Economy Minister], Interfax-Ukraine (4 November 2021)

| Incumbent

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