Viktor Musiyaka

{{Short description|Ukrainian politician and lawyer (1946–2019)}}

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Viktor Musiyaka (28 June 1946 – 22 July 2019) was a Ukrainian politician, leader of the party "Forward, Ukraine!", and deputy chairman of the Ukrainian parliament.

Musiyaka was born soon after World War II in a family of a farmer in a small village between Mykolaiv and Ochakiv. Soon after graduating high school, he worked on factories, first at the Shipyard named after 61 Communards and then after returning from the army at the Olshansky Cement Factory near the town of Olshanske. In 1973 Musiyaka graduated the Kharkiv Law University and its aspirantura, after which he was teaching at the university. Occasionally Musiyaka headed several departments at the university and in 1992 he was granted the title of professor.

From 1994 to 2006 Musiyaka was active in politics of Ukraine and twice was elected to the Ukrainian parliament where for sometime he served as a deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada. V. Musiyaka was the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislative Support of Political Reform, Parliamentary Reform and Organization of Parliamentary Control of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy.