Virgilijus Vladislovas Bulovas

{{Short description|Lithuanian engineer and political figure (1939–2024)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Virgilijus Vladislovas Bulovas

|image = V. V. Bulovas (2004).png

|office = Minister of the Interior

|term_start = 23 February 1996

|term_end = 19 November 1996

|primeminister = Laurynas Stankevičius

|predecessor = Romasis Vaitiekūnas

|successor = Vidmantas Žiemelis

|term_start2 = 13 May 2003

|term_end2 = 14 December 2004

|primeminister2= Algirdas Brazauskas

|predecessor2 = Juozas Bernatonis

|successor2 = Gintaras Jonas Furmanavičius

|birth_date = {{birth date|1939|11|06|df=y}}

|birth_place = Kaunas, Lithuania

|death_date = {{death date and age|2024|02|19|1939|11|06|df=y}}

|death_place = Kaunas, Lithuania

|party =

|spouse =

|children =

|alma_mater = Kaunas Polytechnics Institute

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Virgilijus Vladislovas Bulovas (6 November 1939 – 19 February 2024) was a Lithuanian engineer and political figure. Bulovas was a member of the Seimas and twice served on the Government of Lithuania as the Minister of the Interior.

Biography

Bulovas was born to a family of a military officer in Kaunas, Lithuania, on 6 November 1939. In 1941, after Soviet occupation, his father was deported to Siberia, where he later died.{{cite web|title=Member of the Seimas 1992-1996|publisher=Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania|url=http://www3.lrs.lt/docs3/kad2/w5_lrs.seimo_narys-p_asm_id=28&p_int_tv_id=784&p_kalb_id=1&p_kade_id=2.htm|accessdate=31 March 2016}}

Bulovas graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnics Institute in 1960, with a degree in electrical engineering, specializing in computers. He worked at the Institute until 1992, was awarded a doctorate degree in 1972 and became a docent in 1976. He co-wrote two computer science books and authored more than 50 scientific and educational papers.{{cite news|title=Išrinktas naujas vidaus reikalų ministras|url=http://klaipeda.diena.lt/dienrastis/uzribis/isrinktas-naujas-vidaus-reikalu-ministras-156925|accessdate=4 April 2016|publisher=Klaipėda|date=13 May 2003}}

Bulovas had been a member of the Communist Party of Lithuania since 1963. Upon independence he joined the ranks of Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania and, in the elections in 1992, was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas through its electoral list.

In 1996 Bulovas was appointed the Minister of the Interior in the Government of Laurynas Stankevičius and served until the next elections to the Seimas.{{cite web|title=Ankstesnės Vyriausybės: Po 1990 metų|url=http://lrv.lt/lt/apie-vyriausybe/ankstesnes-vyriausybes/po-1990-metu|website=lrv.lt|publisher=Government of Lithuania|accessdate=4 April 2016}} In 1997, he was appointed the Ambassador to Kazakhstan. Bulovas returned to the Ministry of the Interior in 2001, as a deputy-minister and, later, secretary under Juozas Bernatonis. In 2003 he succeeded Bernatonis as the Minister of the Interior in the Government of Algirdas Brazauskas.

Bulovas died in Kaunas on 19 February 2024, at the age of 84.{{cite web|url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/virgilijus-vladislovas-bulovas/|title=Virgilijus Vladislovas Bulovas|work=Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija|language=Lithuanian}}

References

Category:1939 births

Category:2024 deaths

Category:Members of the Seimas

Category:Politicians from Kaunas

Category:Kaunas University of Technology alumni

Category:Academic staff of the Kaunas University of Technology

Category:Ministers of internal affairs of Lithuania

Category:Communist Party of Lithuania politicians

Category:Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania politicians

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class