The first Yanukovych Government was the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers between 21 November 2002 and 5 January 2005, led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002...

. Yanukovych had been elected Prime Minister of Ukraine

Prime Minister of Ukraine

The Prime Minister of Ukraine is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government....

 with 234 votes, only 8 more than needed.

On December 1, 2004 (during the Orange Revolution

Orange Revolution

The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter...

) the Ukrainian Parliament passed a vote of no-confidence. The government supported NATO membership of Ukraine (2002) and sent Ukrainian troops to Iraq

Multinational force in Iraq

The Multi-National Force – Iraq was a military command, led by the United States, which was responsible for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Multi-National Force – Iraq replaced the previous force, Combined Joint Task Force 7, on 15 May 2004, and was later itself reorganized into its successor, United...

 in 2003.

Composition

• Viktor Yanukovych
  Viktor Yanukovych
  Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002...
  
   - Prime Minister
• Mykola Azarov
  Mykola Azarov
  Mykola Yanovych Azarov ; born Nikolai Yanovich Pakhlo on 17 December 1947, is a Ukrainian politician who has been the Prime Minister of Ukraine since 11 March 2010. He was the First Vice Prime Minister and Finance Minister from 2002 to 2005 and again from 2006 to 2007, and he also served as acting...
  
   - First Deputy Prime Minister
• Vitaly Hayduk - Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy complex
• Ivan Kyrylenko
  Ivan Kyrylenko
  Ivan Hryhorovych Kyrylenko , Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian politician and since 2007 faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.-Biography:...
  
   - Deputy Prime Minister
• Dmytro Tabachnyk
  Dmytro Tabachnyk
  Dmytro Tabachnyk is an Ukrainian politician, science and education minister of Ukraine since March 11, 2010. Tabachnyk has the equivalent of a doctorate in historical science, has the title of professor, and is a current member of the Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine.-Career:In 1986 Tabachnyk...
  
   - Deputy Prime Minister for humanitarian issues
• Serhy Ryzhuk - Agricultural Policy
• Yury Smirnov - Interior Affairs
• Vasyl Shevchuk
  Vasyl Shevchuk
  Vasyl Yakovych Shevchuk was Ukraine’s environment minister in 1998-2000 and 2002-2003 and a deputy minister of economy for sustainable development in 1993-1998. Under his leadership, Kyiv hosted the UN “Environment for Europe” Fifth Ministerial Conference in 2003...
  
   - Environment and Natural Resources
• Valery Khoroshkovsky - Economy and European Integration
• Anatoliy Zlenko
  Anatoliy Zlenko
  Anatoly Maximovich Zlenko is a Ukrainian diplomat. He was formerly the foreign minister of Ukraine.-References:...
  
   - Foreign Affairs
• Hryhory Reva - Emergency Situations and Chernobyl Cleanup
• Yury Bohutsky - Culture and the Regions
• General
  General
  A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
  
   Volodymyr Shkidchenko - Defence
• Vasyl Kremen - Education and Science
• Andry Pidayev - Health
• Oleksandr Lavrynovych
  Oleksandr Lavrynovych
  Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lavrynovych is a Ukrainian politician and deputy in the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada....
  
   - Justice
• Serhy Yermilov - Fuel and Energy
• Mikhail Papiyev - Labour and Social Policy
• Anatoliy Myalytsya - Industrial Policy
• Heorhiy Kirpa
  Heorhiy Kirpa
  Heorhiy Kirpa was a Ukrainian railway manager, statesman and politician, best known as the head of the Ukrzaliznytsia national railway company and Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications under President Leonid Kuchma.- Political career :In May 2002, Kirpa was appointed Minister of...
  
  - Transport