Kostyantyn Masyk

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Kostyantyn Masyk
Костянтин Масик
Deputy chairman of Council of Ministers
In office 11 September 1981 – 18 August 1986
Prime Minister	Oleksandr Liashko
In office July 1989 – 3 August 1990
Prime Minister	Vitaliy Masol
First Vice Prime Minister (First deputy chairman)
In office 3 August 1990[1] – October 1992
Prime Minister	Vitaliy Masol Vitold Fokin
Prime Minister (acting, ex officio)
In office October 1990 – November 1990
Preceded by	Vitaliy Masol
Succeeded by	Vitold Fokin
In office August 1991[2] – August 1991
Preceded by	Vitold Fokin
Succeeded by	Vitold Fokin
Ambassador of Ukraine to Finland (concurrently Sweden, Norway, and Denmark)
In office 1992 – June 1997
President	Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by	post revived (Petro Slyvenko in 1920-22)
Succeeded by	Ihor Podolyev
Personal details
Born	Kostyantyn Ivanovych Masyk (1936-07-09) 9 July 1936 (age 88) Volochysk, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Communist Party of Ukraine (1962–1991)
Occupation	state official, diplomat
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Kostyantyn Ivanovych Masyk (Ukrainian: Костянтин Іванович Масик; 9 July 1936) is a Soviet and Ukrainian state official and diplomat.

Masyk was born in Volochysk. A graduate of the Gorky Institute of Water Transport Engineers, Masyk's working career started at the Kyiv factory of ship construction and repair in 1959–60. In 1960s he became an activist of Komsomol of Ukraine becoming its first secretary in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast.

In 1962 Masyk joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and finished the Higher Party School. In 1970s he served on the party's positions in Kyiv and Odesa. In 1980s Masyk was a deputy chairman of council of ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and the First secretary of the Kyiv city party committee.

In 1990-1992 Masyk was a first deputy chairman and vice-prime Minister of Ukraine and was acting head of government soon after ousting of Vitaliy Masol following the 1990 Kyiv students' hunger strike.

In 1992–1997 he served as an ambassador of Ukraine to Finland and after that director of Nadra Bank.

Later Masyk joined Party of Regions.

• Havrylova, I. Kostyantyn Masyk: We need Moses. The desert in Ukraine already exists (Костянтин МАСИК: Нам потрібен Мойсей. Пустеля в Україні вже є). The Day. 4 June 1999.
• Political old-timer (ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ ДОЛГОЖИТЕЛЬ). Mirror Weekly. 30 June 1995
• Sheremeta, Ye. Kostyantyn Masyk: The King of Sweden himself was running to his bedroom for a chair for my interpreter. Now that interpreter is an ambassador of Ukraine in Libya (Константин масик: «сам король швеции бегал в спальню за стулом для моего переводчика. Сейчас этот переводчик -- посол украины в ливии»). Fakty. 2 February 2001.
• Portnikov, V. September. Masyk (ВЕРЕСЕНЬ. МАСИК). Mirror Weekly. 19 September 2003
• Meeting of students and teachers KNUTD with a head of the State Commission on liquidation of emergency at the Chornobyl Atomic Electrical Station (ChAES) (Зустріч студентів та викладачів КНУТД з головою Урядової комісії з ліквідації аварії на ЧАЕС (1986 р.) Масиком Костянтином Івановичем). Kyiv National University of Technology and Design (KNUTD). 28 April 2017.