The Pustovoitenko Government was created after the Ukrainian parliament had ousted the previous Cabinet of Pavlo Lazarenko (officially Lazarenko left the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine for health reasons).
On July 16, 1997, 226 deputies voted for the appointment of Valeriy Pustovoitenko, chairman of the People's Democratic Party, as Prime Minister of Ukraine. His new government was Ukraine's eighth since Ukraine gained its independence in August 1991.
On November 30, 1999 the Cabinet resign due to reelection of President Kuchma in 1999.
Composition OfficeName ministerTermPartyPrime MinisterValeriy Pustovoitenko 1997-1999 People's Democratic PartyFirst Vice Prime MinisterAnatoliy HolubchenkoVolodymyr KuratchenkoAnatoliy Kinakh1997-1998 1998-1999 1999Independent Independent IndependentVice Prime Minister (on issues of Economy)Anatoliy Kinakh1997-1999IndependentVice Prime Minister - Minister of Labor and Social PolicyMykola Biloblotsky1997-1998Vice Prime MinisterVolodymyr Semynozhenko1997-1999IndependentVice Prime MinisterValeriy Smoliy1997-1999IndependentVice Prime Minister - Minister of Agro-Industrial ComplexMykhailo Hladiy1997-1999Agrarian PartyMinister of Coal [Mining] IndustryStanislav YankoSerhiy Tulub1997-1998 1998-1999Independent IndependentMinister of Rural Business and ProvisionYuriy KarasykBorys Supikhanov1997-1998 1998-1999Minister of EconomicsViktor SuslovVasyl Rohovyi1997-1998 1998-1999Independent IndependentMinister of FinanceIhor Mityukov1997-1999IndependentMinister of DefenceOleksandr Kuzmuk1997-1999Armed Forces of UkraineMinister of Internal AffairsYuriy Kravchenko1997-1999Independent (Militsiya)Minister of Industrial PolicyVasyl Hureyev1997-1999Minister of HealthcareAndriy SerdyukRaisa Bogatyreva1997-1999 1999Independent IndependentMinister of Culture and ArtsDmytro OstapenkoYuriy Bohutsky1997-1999 1999Minister of EducationMykhailo ZghurovskyiValentyn Zaychuk1997-1999 1999Independent IndependentMinister of Power GenerationOleksiy SheberstovIvan Plachkov1997-1999 1999Minister of Cabinet of MinistersAnatoliy Tolstoukhov1997-1999Minister of Foreign AffairsHennadiy UdovenkoBorys Tarasyuk1997-1998 1998-1999People's Movement of Ukraine People's Movement of UkraineMinister of Emergencies and Population Protection from consequences of Chornobyl CatastropheValeriy KalchenkoVasyl Durdynets1997-1999 1999Independent Independent (Internal Troops of Ukraine)Minister on issues of Sciences and TechnologiesVolodymyr SemynozhenkoStanislav Dovhyi1997-1998 1998-1999Independent IndependentMinister of Foreign Economic Relations and TradeSerhiy OsykaAndrii Goncharuk1997-1999 1999Minister of Natural Environment and Nuclear SafetyYuriy KostenkoVasyl Shevchuk1997-1998 1998-1999People's Movement of Ukraine IndependentMinister of TransportationValeriy CherepIvan DankevychLeonid Kostyuchenko1997-1998 1998-1999 1999Minister of JusticeSuzanna Stanik1997-1999IndependentMinister on issues of Family and YouthValentyna Dovzhenko1997-1999Minister of InformationZinoviy Kulyk1997-1999Minister of Labor and Social PolicyIvan Sakhan1998-1999
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