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.
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]