Kostiantyn Sytnyk

Kostiantyn Sytnyk
Костянтин Ситник
Sytnyk in 2012
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR
In office
1980–1985
Preceded byMykhailo Bilyi
Succeeded byPlaton Kostiuk
Director of the Botanic Institute (NANU)
In office
1970–2003
Preceded byAlfred Oksner
Succeeded byYakiv Didukh
Personal details
BornKostiantyn Merkuriyovych Sytnyk
(1926-06-03)3 June 1926
Luhanske, Luhansk Okruha, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died22 July 2017(2017-07-22) (aged 91)
Kyiv, Ukraine
PartyUkrainian Platform "Sobor"
Other political
affiliations		All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1982–90)
People's Democratic Party (1996–99)

Kostiantyn Merkuriyovych Sytnyk (Ukrainian: Костянтин Меркурійович Ситник; 3 June 1926 – 22 July 2017) was a Ukrainian and Soviet scientist and academician, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine who in 1970-2003 was director of the Botanic Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Sytnyk also worked as a politician, and served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1980 to 1985.

Sytnyk was born in Luhansk.


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