2018 in Ukraine
Events in the year 2018 in Ukraine.
Incumbents
Governors
- Cherkasy Oblast: Yuriy Tkachenko (until November 20), Oleksandr Velbivets (starting November 20) (Independent)
- Chernihiv Oblast: Valeriy Kulich (until July 30), Yuliya Svyrydenko (Acting, July 30–November 28), Oleksandr Mysnyk (starting November 28) (Independent)
- Chernivtsi Oblast: Oleksandr Fyshchuk (until November 23), Mykhailo Pavliuk (Acting, starting November 23) (Independent)
- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast: Valentyn Reznichenko (Independent)
- Donetsk Oblast: Pavlo Zhebrivskyi (until June 13), Oleksandr Kutenko (starting July 5) (Independent)
- Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast: Oleh Honcharuk (Independent)
- Kharkiv Oblast: Yuliya Svitlychna (Independent)
- Kherson Oblast: Andriy Hordieiev (Independent)
- Khmelnytskyi Oblast: Oleksandr Korniychuk (until May 18), Vadym Lozovyi (starting May 18) (Independent)
- Kirovohrad Oblast: Serhiy Kuzmenko (Independent)
- Kyiv Oblast: Oleksandr Horgan (until October 30), Oleksandr Tereshchuk (starting October 30) (Independent)
- Luhansk Oblast: Yuriy Harbuz (until November 22), Serhiy Fil (Acting, starting November 22) (Independent)
- Lviv Oblast: Oleh Synyutka (Independent)
- Mykolaiv Oblast: Oleksiy Savchenko (Independent)
- Odesa Oblast: Maksym Stepanov (Independent)
- Poltava Oblast: Valeriy Holovko (Independent)
- Rivne Oblast: Oleksiy Muliarenko (Independent)
- Sumy Oblast: Mykola Klochko (Independent)
- Ternopil Oblast: Stepan开放 (Independent)
- Vinnytsia Oblast: Valeriy Koroviy (Independent)
- Volyn Oblast: Volodymyr Hunchyk (until March 23), Oleksandr Savchenko (starting March 23) (Independent)
- Zakarpattia Oblast: Hennadiy Moskal (Independent)
- Zaporizhzhia Oblast: Kostyantyn Bryl (Independent)
- Zhytomyr Oblast: Ihor開放 (Independent)
Events
December
- The Ukrainian Orthodox Church becomes independent.
Deaths
Leonid Kadeniuk
Kira Muratova
Oksana Shachko
Valeriy Shmarov
Viktor Matviyenko
- 14 January – Lidiia Hryhorchuk, linguist, linguogeographer, dialectologist, paleographer, art critic, professor and a doctor of philology (b. 1926).
- 18 January – Borys Yukhymovych Steklyar, military officer (b. 1923).
- 27 January – Iryna Horoshko, choreographer and dancer (b. 1953).
- 31 January – Leonid Kadeniuk, pilot and astronaut (b. 1951).
- 10 February – Myroslav Popovych, philosopher (b. 1930)
- 14 February – Pyotr Bochek, military officer (b. 1925)
- 5 March – Mykhaylo Chemberzhi, composer (b. 1944).
- 28 March – Kateryna Boloshkevich, weaver and statesperson (b. 1939).
- 18 April – Grigory Gamarnik, wrestler (b. 1929).
- 2 May – Vadim Mulerman, singer (b. 1938)
- 6 June – Kira Muratova, film director, screenwriter and actress (b. 1934).
- 19 June – Ivan Drach, poet, screenwriter and politician, member of Verkhovna Rada (b. 1936).
- 7 July – Levko Lukyanenko, politician (b. 1928).
- 23 July – Oksana Shachko, artist and human rights activist, co-founder of Femen (b. 1987).
- 8 August – Mikhail Shakhov, wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931).
- 1 September – Mykola Shytyuk, historian (b. 1953).
- 14 October – Valeriy Shmarov, politician, Minister of Defence (b. 1945).[citation needed]
- 4 November – Kateryna Handziuk, politician (b. 1985).
- 25 November – Viktor Kanevskyi, footballer (b. 1936).
- 29 November – Viktor Matviyenko, football player and manager, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1948).
- 5 December –
- 6 December –
References
- ↑ Ukrainian Militia Behind Brutal Romany Attacks Getting State Funds Archived 2021-02-03 at the Wayback Machine, Radio Free Europe (June 14, 2018)
- ↑ Ukraine Roma camp attack leaves one dead Archived 2021-01-29 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News (24 June 2018)
- ↑ "Ukraine Orthodox Leaders Approve Break With Russian Church". Archived from the original on 2018-12-16. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
- ↑ Sahajdak, Iryna (28 January 2018). "Коць-григорчук Лідія Михайлівна" [Kots-grigorchuk Lydia Mykhaylivna] (in Ukrainian). Shevchenko Scientific Society. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- ↑ "Светлая память". Archived from the original on February 4, 2018.
- ↑ Turkevych, Vasyl Dmytrovych (December 2018). "Матвієнко Ірина Григорівна" [Matvienko Iryna Grigorivna]. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Kyiv, Ukraine: NASU Institute of Encyclopaedic Research. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
- ↑ Умер первый космонавт Украины Леонид Каденюк. gordonua.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ "Відійшов у вічність". naps.gov.ua. Archived from the original on March 6, 2018.
- ↑ Narovlyansky, Alexander. "Болошкевич Екатерина Ивановна" [Boloshkevich Ekaterina Ivanovna] (in Russian). Homeland heroes [be; hy; ru]. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ↑ "Скончался легендарный украинский спортсмен". DonPress.
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- ↑ Умерла Кира Муратова Archived 2018-08-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ↑ "Ukrainian poet Ivan Drach dies at 81". Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
- ↑ "Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician Levko Lukyanenko dies at 89". 8 July 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
- ↑ "Oksana Shachko death: Femen founder's body discovered in Paris apartment". Independent.co.uk. 24 July 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
- ↑ "Died Ukrainian Olympic medalist Mikhail Shakhov". Archived from the original on 2018-08-11. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
- ↑ "У Миколаєві вбили відомого вченого-дослідника Голодомору - ЗМІ". Українська правда. Archived from the original on September 4, 2018.
- ↑ Mendel, Iuliia (5 November 2018). "Kateryna Handziuk, Ukrainian Activist, Dies from Acid Attack". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-11-15. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
- ↑ "Умер легендарный украинский футболист - звезда киевского "Динамо"". РБК-Украина.
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- ↑ "Не стало Виктора Матвиенко..." dynamo.kiev.ua. November 29, 2018.
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- ↑ "Ушел из жизни легендарный защитник "Карпат" Иван Герег". 24 Канал. Archived from the original on December 6, 2018.
- ↑ "Умер народный артист Украины Николай Рушковский". gordonua.com. Archived from the original on December 5, 2018.
- ↑ "Відійшов у вічність відомий черкаський письменник Василь Захарченко | Рідна Черкащина". Archived from the original on December 6, 2018.
- ↑ "Умер бывший министр внутренних дел Украины". fakty.ua. Archived from the original on December 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Умер выдающийся украинский тренер". РБК-Украина. Archived from the original on December 7, 2018.