What is Vitold Fokin?
{{Infobox Politician | name = Vitold Fokin | image = Фокин В.П..JPG | president = [[Leonid Kravchuk]] | predecessor = [[Vitaliy Masol]] {{small|([[Ukrainian SSR|UkrSSR]])}} | successor = [[Valentyn Symonenko]] {{small|(Acting)}} | order = 1st | office = Prime Minister of Ukraine | term_start = 23 October 1990 | term_end = 1 October 1992 <br> <small>(acting until 24 August 1991)</small> | office2 = State Planning Committee of [[Ukrainian SSR]] ([[DerzhPlan]]) | primeminister2 = [[Vitaliy Masol]] | term_start2 = July 1987 | term_end2 = 1990 | predecessor2 = [[Vitaliy Masol]] | successor2 = post liquidated | office3 = Director of the Pervomaiskvuhillya trest | office4 = Chief of the Sverdlovatratsyt [[kombinat]] | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1932|10|25}} | birth_place = Novomykolaivka, [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]] [[Ukrainian SSR]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2025|3|20|1932|10|25}} | death_place = [[Kyiv]], Ukraine | party = Independent<br>(until 1990 [[Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine|KP(b)U]]) | alma_mater = [[National Mining University of Ukraine]] | spouse = Tomila Hryhoriivna | children = 2 | religion = | nationality = | signature = Vitold Fokin Signature 1974.png | native_name = {{No bold|Вітольд Фокін}} }} '''Vitold Pavlovych Fokin''' ({{lang-uk|Віто́льд Па́влович Фо́кін}}; 25 October 1932 &ndash; 20 March 2025) was a Ukrainian politician. He was appointed first deputy [[Prime Minister of Ukraine]] in November 1991. After [[Vitaliy Masol]] was forced to resign Fokin was appointed [[Prime Minister of Ukraine|Head of the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR]] on 17 October 1990.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=qmN95fFocsMC&q=Fokin&pg=PA850 Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1999],