Stepan Senchuk
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Stepan Romanovich Senchuk was born in the city of Prokofevsk in the Kemerovo
Kemerovo
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 area of Ukraine
Ukraine
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. He was part of a family that was subjected to repression. Senchuk studied at the Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

 agricultural institute (1972 - 1977), specializing in engineering and mechanics. From 1977 to 1993, Senchuk was on engineering and supervising posts at different agricultural enterprises. Since 1993, he was general director of Lviv's regional state enterprise, Lvivagroremmashpostach.

He was the deputy of the Lviv regional council from 1994 to 1998, where he headed the Agrarian Party
People's Party (Ukraine)
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. From March 1997 to April 1998, Senchuk was the vice president of the Lviv-region state administration for agriculture and foodstuffs. On April 14, 1998, he was selected to be the chairman of the Lviv-region council.

On January 15, 1999, Senchuk was appointed as governor of the Lviv region; for some time he combined two posts. On March 19, 2001 he was dismissed from the post of chairman of the state administration. On July 5, 2001 he also retired from the post of regional council chairman.

Since 2005, Senchuk was a member of People's Union "Our Ukraine" and a delegate of the constituent congress. Most recently he held a post at a chapter of the supervisory council of Lviv corporation, "Ecolan" (a food manufacturer).

He was shot dead November 29, 2005 19:20 in his car.
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