| Vasyl Dzharty | |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Office: | Prime Minister of Crimea |
| President: | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Term Start: | 17 March 2010 |
| Term End: | 17 August 2011 |
| Predecessor: | Viktor Plakida |
| Successor: | Anatolii Mohyliov |
| Office1: | Minister of Natural Environment Protection |
| Primeminister1: | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Term Start1: | 4 August 2006 |
| Term End1: | 18 December 2007 |
| Predecessor1: | Pavlo Ihnatenko |
| Successor1: | Heorhiy Filipchuk |
| Office2: | Mayor of Makiivka |
| Governor2: | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Term Start2: | January 2000 |
| Term End2: | November 2002 |
| Birth Date: | 3 June 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Rozdolne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Death Place: | Yalta, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine |
| Party: | Party of Regions |
| Alma Mater: | |
Vasyl Heorhiyovych Dzharty (Ukrainian: Василь Георгійович Джарти; 3 June 1958 – 17 August 2011) was a Ukrainian politician who served as Prime Minister of Crimea from 17 March 2010 until his death in August 2011.
Dzharty was born in 1958, in Rozdolne, a village in the Starobesheve district of Donetsk Oblast in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[1] His father was a miner.[2]
He completed his studies at Donetsk Polytechnic Institute. He then obtained a master's degree from Donetsk National Technical University in public administration.[2]
Dzharty served as the Donetsk Oblast's first deputy governor.[2] He then became Mayor of Makiivka, a city in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.[2] He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, serving during its fifth and sixth sessions as a member of the Party of Regions.[2] From 2006 to 2007, Dzharty served as Ukraine's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources.[2]
Dzharty became the Prime Minister of Crimea on 17 March 2010, succeeding outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Plakida.[3] The Speaker of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Volodymyr Konstantinov, had nominated Dzharty, a member of the Party of Regions, as Crimea's next prime minister and chairman of the council of ministers.[3] As required by the Ukrainian Constitution, the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, had to personally approve of Dzharty's nomination, which he did.[3] The Supreme Council of Crimea, which acts as Crimea's parliament, overwhelmingly approved Dzharty's nomination on March 17, 2011.[3] 82 out of the 89 members of the Crimean parliament voted in favor of Dzharty's appointment as Prime Minister.[3] Dzharty simultaneously served as chairman of the Crimean branch of the Party of Regions.[4]
Dzharty was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2010.[5] He sought treatment for the disease in Ukraine, Germany and Russia.[5] Dzharty died from lung cancer in Yalta on August 17, 2011, at the age of 53.[1] [6] He was interred at Kozatske cemetery in the city of Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on August 18, 2011.[1] A memorial service was also held in Simferopol.[5] On November 7, 2011 President Viktor Yanukovych appointed Anatolii Mohyliov as his successor as Prime Minister of Crimea.[7]
According to the Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko, in the 1990s Dzharty headed the Makiivka gang and was known in a criminal world as "Vasia the Bat" for his proficiency with a baseball bat in racketeering.[8] [9]