Maxim Viktorovich Efimov (Ukrainian: Максим Вікторович Єфімов, romanized: Maksym Viktorovych Yefimov; born 1 November 1974) is a Ukrainian politician and former People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 48th electoral district from 2014 to December 2023. Formerly an independent and member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, and following this co-chair of Restoration of Ukraine alongside Igor Abramovych.
Maxim Efimov | |
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Максим Єфімов | |
 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 27 November 2014 – 8 December 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Yuriy Boyarskyi |
| Constituency | Donetsk Oblast, No. 48 |
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| Born | 1 November 1974 Petropavlovsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Petropavl, Kazakhstan) |
| Political party | Restoration of Ukraine (since 2022) |
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Early life and career
editMaxim Viktorovich Efimov was born on 1 November 1974 in the city of Petropavlovsk in the northern Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Petropavl in Kazakhstan). He is a graduate of the University of Bern's Department of Business Administration, the Donetsk National University (specialising in economics) and the Donetsk National Technical University (with a degree in ferrous metallurgy).[1]
Efimov began working in 1996, as general director of the Kramatorsk Metallurgical and Machine-Building Company. From 1997 to 1998, he worked at Kramatorsk Multi-Industry Marketing Company before moving to Kramatorsk Aeronautical School, where he remained for a year before moving to the EnerhoMashSpetsStal plant in Kramatorsk.[1] In 2006[2] or 2007[further explanation needed], Efimov was appointed as head of EnerhoMashSpetsStal.[1]
Political career
editEfimov was first elected to a political position in the 2006 Ukrainian local elections, being elected to the Kramatorsk City Council as a member of Party of Regions. He was subsequently re-elected in the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, before leaving the Party of Regions on 25 August 2014.[2]
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Efimov was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 48th electoral district (located in Kramatorsk[3]), campaigning as an independent. He defeated incumbent People's Deputy Yuriy Boyarskyi with 34.12% of the vote to Boyarskyi's 31.15%.[4] In the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), Efimov joined the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, and was first deputy chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship.[2]
In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, Efimov ran to be mayor of Kramatorsk as the candidate of Our Land (though he was not a member of the party), but was unsuccessful after making it to the second round.[1]
Efimov ran again in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent in the 48th electoral district, and was again successfully elected, defeating independent candidate Denys Oshurko with 54.88% of the vote to Oshurko's 19.09%.[5] In the Verkhovna Rada, he joined Dovira, and became a member of the Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Committee, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the De-occupation and Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Minorities, and the Verkhovna Rada International Relations Committee.[2]
On 22 May 2022, Efimov, alongside 16 other People's Deputies, participated in the founding of the Restoration of Ukraine parliamentary group. Efimov, along with Igor Abramovych, was declared co-chairman of the parliamentary group.[6]
On 1 December 2023, Efimov announced he had decided to withdraw his powers as a people's deputy.[3] he stated he did so to help solving the needs of the Kramatorsk region that had been that had been significantly hit by the Russian army in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3][7][8] On 8 December 2023 parliament officially terminated his parliamentary mandate.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Єфімов Максим Вікторович" [Yefimov, Maksym Viktorovych]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 12 December 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Єфімов Максим Вікторович" [Yefimov, Maksym Viktorovych]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ a b c "A majority People's Deputy declared that he was drafting the mandate" (in Ukrainian). Ukrainska Pravda. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ "Одномандатний виборчий округ №48" [Single-mandate electoral district No. 48]. Central Election Commission (Ukraine) (in Ukrainian). 18 July 2019. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ "Відомості про підрахунок голосів виборців в одномандатному виборчому окрузі №48" [Information about counting of voters' votes in single-mandate electoral district No. 48]. Central Election Commission (Ukraine) (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 28 July 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ Salizhenko, Oleksandr (23 May 2022). "Історичний день у Верховній Раді. Обійми Дуди і Зеленського та ще одна реінкарнація ОПЗЖ" [Historic day in the Verkhovna Rada: Duda and Zelenskyy hug and a new reincarnation of OPZZh]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ Ivana Kottasová (27 June 2023). "Kramatorsk restaurant strike shows that in Ukraine, death can come any time, anywhere". CNN. Archived from the original on 28 June 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ Mayeni Jones, James Gregory (27 June 2023). "Kramatorsk: Russian missile strike hits restaurants in Ukrainian city". BBC News. Archived from the original on 27 June 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ "Three people's deputies lost a mandate" (in Ukrainian). Ukrainska Pravda. 8 December 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.