
Mykola Yanovych Azarov (born 17 December 1947) was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 7 to 28 December 2004 (interrupting Viktor Yanukovych's terms), from 5 to 24 January 2005 (succeeding Yanukovych and preceding Yulia Tymoshenko), and from 11 March 2010 to 28 January 2014 (succeeding Oleksandr Turchynov and preceding Serhiy Arbuzov).
Biography[]
Mykola Yanovych Azarov was born in Kaluga, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1947, the son of an Estonian father and a Russian mother. He moved to Donetsk in 1984, served as deputy director and director of Ukraine's State Research and Design Institute of Mining Geology and Geomechanics from 1984 to 1995, was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 1994 as a Party of Regions politician (having cofounded the party as the "Party of Labor" in 1992), headed the State Tax Administration from 1996 to 2002, served as Finance Minister from 2002 to 2005, as Prime Minister in December 2004 and January 2005, as Finance Minister and Vice Prime Minister from 2006 to 2007, and as Prime Minister from 2010 to 2014, when he resigned during the Euromaidan revolution. He went into exile in Austria and then in Russia, and, in March 2014, he was expelled from the Party of Regions. While in exile, he formed the "Ukraine Salvation Committee" in Moscow in August 2015.