Hennadiy Hennadiyovych Moskal (Ukrainian: Геннадій Геннадійович Москаль; 11 December 1950 – 17 March 2024) was a Ukrainian politician who served as governor of Zakarpattia Oblast from 2015 to 2019.[5][6] He was previously appointed governor ofLuhansk Oblast during the early stages of the War in Donbas.[7][8]
Moskal was born on 11 December 1950 in Zadubrivka, Chernivtsi Oblast[10] into a family of public servants.[4][11][12] His father, Hennadiy Hadeyovych Hayfulin (or Hayfullin),[13] was an ethnic Tatar.[14] His mother, Stepaniya Pavlivna Moskal, was an ethnic Ukrainian.[citation needed]
Education
Gennady Moskal graduated from the Chernivtsi Railway College,[4] then in
In 1975, Moskal started working as detective of Soviet police (Militsiya) in Chernivtsi, where he advanced from inspector to Militsiya Lieutenant General. During working in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs he was the Deputy Chief of Militsiya in Chernivtsi oblast.
1978–1992 – Chief of criminal investigation department of Chernivtsi Oblast militsiya (with breaks)
1983–1986 – Deputy chief of militsiya in the Lenin district of Chernivtsi
In autumn 2007, Gennady Moskal was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine from Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (under No. 41). In Verkhovna Rada, he performed duties of the 1st Deputy Chairman of the committee to combat organized crime and corruption.[4]
At the time of elections in 2007, Moskal was the president of the Kyiv law firm "Protection".[15]
On 19 August 2009, Gennady Moskal was re-appointed the Chief of the Internal Affairs Department in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, but in order to keep the parliamentary mandate, he resigned on 15 December 2009; on 16 December 2009, he was reinstated in the former position by the government. On 3 February 2010, President Viktor Yushchenko sent an inquiry to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the legality of coordinating both positions by Moskal; after that, Moskal resigned in Crimea.[citation needed]
Moskal was married and had one daughter and two grandchildren.[4] He died on 17 March 2024, at the age of 73.[10][22] It was reported that he died "from a serious illness."[22]
