What is Ivan Vakarchuk?
[[File:Іван Вакарчук (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Vakarchuk in 2010]] '''Ivan Vakarchuk''' ({{lang-uk|Іван Олександрович Вакарчук}}; 6 March 1947 – 4 April 2020) was a [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] [[physicist]] and politician. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013, he was rector of the [[University of Lviv]]. He served as [[Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine|Minister of Education and Science]] from 2007 to 2010. He was the father of [[Svyatoslav Vakarchuk]], lead singer of the [[rock band]] [[Okean Elzy]]. Vakarchuk was born in [[Brătușeni]], [[Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic|Moldavian SSR]] (present-day [[Moldova]]). On 4 April 2020, he died in [[Lviv]] at the age of 73.<ref>{{Cite news|lang=uk|url=https://mig.com.ua/umer-jeks-ministr-ivan-vakarchuk-otec-svjatoslava-vakarchuka/|website=MIG|date=4 April 2020|access-date=4 April 2020|title=Умер экс-министр Иван Вакарчук — отец Святослава Вакарчука}}</ref> ==References== {{Commonscat}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Vakarchuk, Ivan}} [[Category:1947 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Ukrainian physicists]] [[Category:Politicians from Lviv]] {{bio-stub}}