Vasyl Vovkun

{{short description|Ukrainian actor}}

{{Infobox Minister

| name = Vasyl Vovkun

| caption = Vovkun in 2007

| image = 2007-06-18 Vasyl Vovkun.jpg

| office = Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine

| term_start = 18 December 2007

| term_end = 11 March 2010

| predecessor = Yuriy Bohutsky

| successor = Mykhailo Kulyniak[http://unian.net/eng/news/news-366951.html VR approved structure of Cabinet of Ministers (update)], UNIAN (March 11, 2010)

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|06|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Matsoshyn, Lviv region, Ukrainian SSR

| party = Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc[http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/186107.html Culture And Tourism Minister Vovkun Sees His Dismissal As Possible]. Ukrainian News Agency (March 13, 2009)

| spouse =

| children =

| residence = Kyiv, Ukraine

| occupation = Theatre producer and scriptwriter

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| native_name_lang = uk

| native_name = {{nobold|Василь Вовкун}}

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Vasyl Volodymyrovych Vovkun ({{langx|uk|Василь Володимирович Вовкун}}) was Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine in the second Tymoshenko Government.

Biography

Vovkun graduated from the theatre arts studio at the Zankovetska Lviv State Academical Drama Theatre and the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Arts. From 1981 he performed on stage of the Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theatre and from 1989 until 1994 he was an actor at Kyiv studio-theatre "Budmo!". In 1994 he became production director of the Ukrainian State Centre of the Cultural Initiatives. He is also the Artistic Director of the Production Workshop "Artistic Agency Art Veles" from 1995 and from 2003 the General Producer of the Kyiv Festival (until 2004 – Britten Kyiv Festival).[http://photo.ukrinform.ua/eng/current/photo.php?id=167050 VASYL VOVKUN – CULTURE AND TOURISM MINISTER OF UKRAINE], UKRINFORM (December 18, 2007)

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Category:1957 births

Category:People from Lviv Oblast

Category:Living people

Category:Ukrainian male stage actors

Category:Culture and tourism ministers of Ukraine

Category:Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class

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