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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Hennadiyovych and the family name is Moskal.

Hennadiy Moskal
Геннадій Москаль
Moskal in 2014

Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast
In office 15 July 2015 – 11 June 2019
President	Petro Poroshenko
Preceded by	Vasyl Hubal
Succeeded by	Ivan Duran (acting)
In office June 2001 – September 2002
President	Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by	Viktor Baloha
Succeeded by	Ivan Rizik
Governor of Luhansk Oblast
In office 18 September 2014 – 15 July 2015
President	Petro Poroshenko
Preceded by	Iryna Verihina (acting)
Succeeded by	Yuriy Klimenko (acting)
In office November 2005 – April 2006
President	Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by	Oleksiy Danilov
Succeeded by	Oleksandr Kobityev
Representatives of the President of Ukraine in Crimea
In office 2006–2007
President	Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by	Volodymyr Kulish
Succeeded by	Viktor Shemchuk
People's Deputy of Ukraine
6th convocation
In office 23 November 2007 – 12 December 2012
Constituency	Independent, No.41
7th convocation
In office 12 December 2012 – 27 November 2014
Constituency	Independent, No.32

Personal details
Born	(1950-12-11)11 December 1950 Zadubrivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	17 March 2024(2024-03-17) (aged 73)
Political party	Batkivshchyna
Other political affiliations	Front of Changes (December 2011 to June 2013)
Children	1 daughter
Occupation	Politician, lawyer
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Hennadiy Hennadiyovych Moskal (Ukrainian: Геннадій Геннадійович Москаль; 11 December 1950 – 17 March 2024) was a Ukrainian politician who served as governor of Zakarpattia Oblast from 2015 to 2019. He was previously appointed governor of Luhansk Oblast during the early stages of the War in Donbas.

Moskal also acted as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and was a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (1997).

Biography

Moskal was born on 11 December 1950 in Zadubrivka, Chernivtsi Oblast into a family of public servants. His father, Hennadiy Hadeyovych Hayfulin (or Hayfullin), was an ethnic Tatar. His mother, Stepaniya Pavlivna Moskal, was an ethnic Ukrainian.

Education

Gennady Moskal graduated from the Chernivtsi Railway College, then in

1981 – Kyiv Higher School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs named after Dzerzhinsky
1984 – the Academy of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (ru) in Moscow

Career

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In 1975, Moskal started working as detective of Soviet police (Militsiya) in Chernivtsi, where he advanced from inspector to Militsiya Lieutenant General. During working in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs he was the Deputy Chief of Militsiya in Chernivtsi oblast.

1978–1992 – Chief of criminal investigation department of Chernivtsi Oblast militsiya (with breaks)
- 1983–1986 – Deputy chief of militsiya in the Lenin district of Chernivtsi
1992–1995 – Chief of criminal militsiya in Chernivtsi Oblast
1995–1997 – Chief of militsiya in Zakarpattia Oblast.
1997–2000 – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief of militsiya in Crimea
2000–2001 – Internal Affairs, Chief of militsiya in Dnipropetrovsk region
June 2001 – September 2002 – Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast
2002–2005 – Chairman of State Committee on Nationalities and Migration
February 2005 – November 2005 – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief of criminal militsiya
November 2005 – April 2006 – Governor of Luhansk region
2006 – the Permanent Representative of President of Ukraine in Crimea
9 January 2007 – appointed the Deputy Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) by Presidential Decree.
April 2007 – May 2007 – Deputy Secretary of RNBU

Verkhovna Rada

In autumn 2007, Gennady Moskal was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine from Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (under No. 41). In Verkhovna Rada, he performed duties of the 1st Deputy Chairman of the committee to combat organized crime and corruption. At the time of elections in 2007, Moskal was the president of the Kyiv law firm "Protection".

On 19 August 2009, Gennady Moskal was re-appointed the Chief of the Internal Affairs Department in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, but in order to keep the parliamentary mandate, he resigned on 15 December 2009; on 16 December 2009, he was reinstated in the former position by the government. On 3 February 2010, President Viktor Yushchenko sent an inquiry to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the legality of coordinating both positions by Moskal; after that, Moskal resigned in Crimea.

Moskal joined the party Front of Changes in December 2011. In 2012 he was re-elected into parliament on the party list of Fatherland. On 15 June 2013, his Front for Change (party) merged into Batkivschyna. On 25 August 2014 Moskal was expelled from Batkivschyna because he had supported and campaigned for Petro Poroshenko in the 25 May Ukrainian presidential election and not Batkivschyna's presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko. From then until June 2019 Moskal was a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Moskal did not get elected (as an independent candidate) after losing in single-seat constituency 106 in Sievierodonetsk, with 11.99% of the vote.

Luhansk Oblast Governor and Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast

On 18 September 2014, President Petro Poroshenko appointed Moskal Luhansk Oblast Governor. At that time Luhansk Oblast was one of the front-lines of the war in Donbas. On 15 July 2015, he was dismissed as Governor. Moskal was appointed Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast the same day. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Moskal and replaced him with Ivan Duran as acting Governor on 11 June 2019.

Personal life and death

Moskal was married and had one daughter and two grandchildren. He died on 17 March 2024, at the age of 73. It was reported that he died "from a serious illness."