Valentyn Zghursky Explained

Valentyn Zghursky
Native Name:Валентин Згурський
Office:Head of the Executive Committee of the Kyiv City Council
Term Start:November 1, 1979
Term End:January 17, 1990
Predecessor:Volodymyr Husiev
Successor:Mykola Lavrukhin (Head of the Executive Committee of the Kyiv City Council) and Arnold Nazarchuk (Head of the Kyiv City Council)
Birth Date:9 February 1927
Birth Place:Birzula, Moldavian ASSR, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Kyiv, Ukraine
Party:Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nationality:Ukrainian
Alma Mater:Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Signature:Valentyn Zhurskyi Signature 1987.png

Valentyn Arsentiyovych Zghursky (Ukrainian: Валентин Арсентійович Згурський) was a head of the executive committee of the Kyiv City Council.

Biography

During World War II as a teenager he worked on Soviet railways. After graduating the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1954 as an electrical engineer, in 1950s-1970s Zghursky worked at the Soviet Defense company "Radiopribor" (Radio Instrument) in Kyiv making there a career and eventually becoming its general director (1973-1979). Radiopribor was also known as the Korolyov Production Union.

After dissolution of the Soviet Union, Radiopribor was transformed into a Meridian Factory in 1994.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20150531130036/http://gazeta.ua/articles/money-newspaper/_robitniki-zavodu-meridian-vimagayut-povernuti-vkradenu-socialku/159389?mobile=true Meridian Factory workers request to return stolen social guarantees