Mykola Kucher
Микола Кучер
Official portrait, 2019
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 November 2014
Preceded by	Hryhoriy Zabolotnyi
Constituency	Vinnytsia Oblast, No. 17
Personal details
Born	(1959-07-24) 24 July 1959 (age 64) Hordiyivka [uk], Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Ukrainian People's Party (2005–2010) PPB (2014–2019) Dovira (since 2019)

Mykola Ivanovych Kucher (Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Кучер; born 24 August 1959) is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur, currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 26 November 2014.^[1]

Education

In 1981, he graduated from the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy with a degree in agronomy.

Career

• 1981 – the main agronomist of collective farm, Trostianchyk [uk] village, Trostianets Raion
• 1989–1992 – chair of Trostianets regional agro-industrial corporation
• 1992–1994 – director of agricultural and food management of Trostianets regional administration
• 1994–1995 – deputy manager of agriculture and food management of Vinnytsia Oblast government
• 1995–1999 – Head of Department managing Vinnytsia oblast administration
• 1999–2000 – Head of department deputy manager Ukraine's Bread (Kyiv)
• 2000–2002 – first deputy manager Bread of Ukraine
• 2002–2004 – chairman of the board of directors of Bread of Ukraine
• 2004–2013 – director of Grain Product MHP
• Since 2013 — Department director Mironivsky Hliboproduct

Political career

• Since 2010 — Deputy of Vinnytsia Oblast Council (Ukrainian People's Party).

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kucher won electoral district No. 17 (Vinnytsia Oblast) as an independent candidate with 47.64%.^[2]

• 27 November 2014– — member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on agriculture policy and land relations and member of faction of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"^[3]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kucher was re-elected in single-seat constituency 17 again as an independent candidate with 34.97% of the votes.^[4][5]

In December 2018, he sent a request–the court–take on bail the former acting Myroslav Prodan, head of the Fiscal Service of Ukraine (suspected of illegal enrichment of UAH 89 million in 2016–2018).^[6]

Private life

He is married, with two children. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kucher's daughter Larysa Bilozir was elected in single-seat constituency 15.^[4]

Recognition

• A Candidate of Agricultural Science (Ukraine)
• Honoured Agricultural Worker of Ukraine
• Order of Merit, 3rd Class (Ukraine)