Prime Minister of Ukraine
Mykola Azarov was born December 17, 1947.
Place of birth: Kaluga, some 200 km (120 miles) southwest of Moscow.
Education: graduated from Moscow State University as a geologist and geophysicist in 1971.
Career: worked at the Tulaugol coal enterprise until 1976.
1976-1984 – headed a laboratory at the Moscow Region Design and Research Coal Institute.
1984-1995 – was a deputy director and director of Ukraine's State Research and Design Institute of Mining Geology and Geomechanics.
1996-2002 – Azarov headed Ukraine's State Tax Administration.
Political activity: in 2001 he became the head of the Party of Regions but resigned from the post in less than a year.
2003 – was elected chairman of the Party of Regions political council.
2002-2005 – was a first deputy premier in the government of then premier Viktor Yanukovych.
In late 2004- early 2005 Azarov was acting Ukrainian prime minister.
March 2006 – was elected to parliament on the Party of Regions list.
August 2006 – was appointed first deputy prime minister again in the Yanukovych government, and in a few months he was appointed Ukraine's finance minister, a post he occupied until Yulia Tymoshenko became premier in late 2007.
June 2009 – the Party of Regions appointed Azarov head of Yanukovych's presidential campaign headquarters.
March 2010 – Azarov, who now leads the Party of Regions, was appointed prime minister after President Viktor Yanukovych submitted his candidacy to parliament.
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