Pavlo Kukhta

Pavlo Kukhta
Павло Кухта
Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture
In office
4 March 2020 – 17 March 2020
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byTymofiy Mylovanov
Succeeded byIhor Petrashko
Personal details
Born (1985-12-03) 3 December 1985 (age 40)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
PartyVoice
SpouseIuliia Mendel
EducationIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Aspen Institute
OccupationEconomist
politician

Pavlo Andriiovych Kukhta (Ukrainian: Павло Андрійович Кухта; born 3 December 1985) is a Ukrainian economist and politician. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.

Early life

Kukhta was born on 3 December 1985 in Kyiv, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. In 2006, he graduated in computer science from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, then in systems analysis. In 2018, he studied at the Kyiv campus of the Aspen Institute.

Career

Kukhta is an economist at the Center for Economic Solutions. He cooperated with the Reanimation Package of Reforms as an expert, and was Deputy Head of the Strategic Group of Advisers on Reform Support.

From 2015 to 2019, he worked as an adviser to the Minister of Finance. From 2016 to 2019, he was an adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine. In addition, on a voluntary basis, he was an assistant to the deputies Yaroslav Markevich and Ihor Lutsenko during the 8th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada.

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kukhta failed as a candidate of Voice to get elected to parliament. His 25th place on the national election list was 8 places behind the elected members of the party.

Military service

From September 2019 to April 2020, Kukhta served as First Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.

On March 26, 2022, Pavlo Kukhta went to the front line of the Russian invasion of Ukraine., On about April 20, 2022, he resigned from the Ukrainian Army.

Personal life

He is fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, and English. On 4 June 2022 he married Iuliia Mendel, the former press secretary of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Павел Кухта". Экономическая правда (in Russian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "Cabinet appoints acting economic minister". LB.ua. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "Про тимчасове покладення виконання обов'язків Міністра розвитку економіки, торгівлі та сільського господарства України на Кухту П. А." Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 "КУХТА Павло Андрійович". me.gov.ua. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Кухта Павло Андрійович". Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
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  7. ↑ CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
    (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
  8. ↑ "Про призначення Кухти П. А. першим заступником Міністра розвитку економіки, торгівлі та сільського господарства України". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Про звільнення Кухти П. А. з посади першого заступника Міністра розвитку економіки, торгівлі та сільського господарства України". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  10. ↑ "«Немає слів, щоб описати, що означає його відпустити». Юлія Мендель повідомила, що її коханий Павло Кухта пішов на передову". New Voice (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  11. ↑ "Мендель показала фото з коханим, який повернувся з передової". ТаблоID (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  12. ↑ "Кухта Павло Андрійович". LB.ua. Retrieved 4 February 2026.