Vitaliy Satskyi | |
Honorific Suffix: | , Doctor of Technical Sciences |
Native Name: | Віталій Антонович Сацький |
Office1: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
Term Start1: | 15 May 1990[1] |
Term End1: | 10 May 1994 |
Office2: | Director of the Zaporizhstal |
Term Start2: | 1986 |
Term End2: | 2012 |
Predecessor2: | Oleksandr Herasymenko |
Successor2: | Rostyslav Shurma |
Birth Date: | 22 April 1930 |
Birth Place: | Polohy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine |
Party: | Communist Party of Ukraine |
Nationality: | Ukrainian |
Alma Mater: | Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute |
Occupation: | Politician, Red director, Metallurgist |
Vitaliy Antonovych Satskyi (Ukrainian: Віталій Антонович Сацький; 22 April 1930 – 26 October 2017) was a Ukrainian politician, director of Zaporizhstal, former metallurgist. He was a member of the Academy of Mining Sciences of Ukraine (1993), the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Ukraine, and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Born in village of Chubarivka (today Polohy), in 1954 Satskyi graduated a technological faculty of the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (today the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine) as engineer-metallurgist.
In 1954 to 1980 he worked at the leading metal producing factory in Ukraine Kryvorizhstal starting from engineer-roller of rolling shop and secretary of the factory's Komsomol Committee to chief engineer and deputy director of Kryvorizhstal in 1968.
In 1980-1983 Satskyi was a director of the All-Union Research and Development Design Institute of Mechanized Labor in Ferrous Metallurgy (Ukrainian: Всесоюзний науково-дослідницький проектно-конструкторський технологічний інститут механізованої праці в чорній металургії) in Dnipropetrovsk or briefly Mekhchormet (Ukrainian: Мехчормет) and in 1983-1986 he was a chief of the Ukrmetalurhprom (Ukrainian: Укрметалургпром, Ukrainian Metallurgy).
In 1986-2012 Satskyi was a director of Zaporizhstal and in 1990-1994 a People's Deputy of Ukraine. On 18 March 1990 he was elected at the Zavodskyi electoral district (#180) of Zaporizhzhia city among eight runners.[1] In 1950-1991 Satskyi was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[1]
On 26 October 2017 he died after an after prolonged illness.[2] At time of death, Satskyi was on the Forbes list of the most rich people in Ukraine with his assets estimated at $128 million.[2]