Serhiy Osachuk | |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Office: | Governor of Chernivtsi Oblast |
President: | Volodymyr Zelensky |
Primeminister: | Oleksiy Honcharuk Denys Shmygal |
Term Start: | 22 November 2019 |
Term End: | 13 July 2022 |
Predecessor: | Mykhaylo Pavlyuk (Acting) |
Successor: | Ruslan Zaparanyuk |
Birth Name: | Serhiy Dmytrovych Osachuk |
Birth Date: | 7 June 1972 |
Birth Place: | Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
Education: | University of Chernivtsi |
Occupation: | historian politician |
Party: | Unity |
Serhiy Dmytrovych Osachuk (; born 7 June 1972[1]) is a Ukrainian historian and politician. He served as Governor of Chernivtsi Oblast from 2019 to 2022.
In 1994, Osachuk graduated from the University of Chernivtsi.[1] He is a Candidate of Historical Sciences and a senior researcher at the University of Chernivtsi. In 2010, Osachuk ran for the Chernivtsi City Council.[2] Since 2013, he served as an Honorary Consul to Austria.[3]
He speaks German fluently.
Osachuk was known for a series of controversial statements and measures, such as the denial of the Fântâna Albă massacre and the removal from the Central Square of Chernivtsi of a banner that reproduced the first documentary attestation of the city, issued by the Moldavian ruler Alexandru cel Bun.[4] [5] Due to this, the Romanian press labeled him as anti-Romanian.[6]