Vasyl Bertash | |
Native Name Lang: | ua |
Office: | Governor of Rivne Oblast |
Term Start: | 18 March 2010 |
Term End: | 2 March 2014 |
Successor: | Serhiy Rybachok |
Office1: | Member of the Verkhovna Rada |
Term Start1: | April 2006 |
Term End1: | November 2007 |
Birth Name: | Vasyl Mykhailovych Bertash |
Birth Date: | 7 January 1961 |
Birth Place: | Rokytne, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
Party: | Party of Regions |
Alma Mater: | National University of Water and Nature Management |
Vasyl Mykhailovych Bertash (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Берташ; born 7 January 1961, in Rokytne, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian construction engineer and later politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada.
In 1979–1980 he worked for various Soviet agrarian firms (collective or state farms) in Dubno and Lutsk raions as a construction laborer.
After graduating from the University of Water and Nature Management in Rivne, in 1985-1992, Bertash worked as a construction engineer and general contractor.
From 1992-1998 he is CEO of polish-Ukrainian company REMROL.[1]
From 1998-2005 he worked at the Rivne Oblast State Administration, heading regional construction department.
He was deputy of the Oblast Council in 2002-2006.[1]
From 2006-2007 Bertash was a member of the Verkhovna Rada representing the Party of Regions.
From 2010-2014 he served as a Governor of Rivne Oblast.
In 2023, he was a deputy of the Rivne Oblast Council.
Vasyl Bertash is the president of the Rivne public organization "Billiards Sports Association".
Other hobbies: sports, hunting, fishing.
He is married. Son Myroslav was born in 1981.[2]