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Leonid Pasechnik
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Russian politician and head of the Lugansk People's Republic
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Leonid Ivanovich Pasechnik is a male politician and military personnel born on March 15, 1970, in Luhansk. He holds citizenship in the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Russia, and speaks Russian. His military career includes service in the Security Service of Ukraine, where he attained the ranks of praporshchik and major general. He has participated in the War in Donbas and the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present).
Pasechnik has served as the Head of the Luhansk People's Republic. His political affiliations include the parties Peace for Lugansk Region and United Russia. His allegiances are listed as the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, and Russia. He received the Medal For Military Service to Ukraine.
As an author, Leonid Lʹvovich Pasechnik is credited with one work titled *Ėnergetika* in Open Library records, while Crossref lists five works. He is referenced by 1,326 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Prime minister
- Sergey Kozlov
- Preceded by
- Igor Plotnitsky
- Succeeded by
- Anatoly Antonov
- Born
- ( 1970-03-15 ) 15 March 1970 (age 56) , Voroshilovgrad , Ukrainian SSR , USSR , (now Luhansk )
- Party
- United Russia (2021– present )
- Other political affiliations
- Peace to Luhanshchyna (2014– present )
- Alma mater
- Donetsk Military-Political College
- Awards
- Medal For Military Service to Ukraine
- Allegiance
- Russia (2022–present) Formerly Ukraine (1993–2014) Luhansk People's Republic (2014–2017)
- Branch service
- Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ministry of State Security of the Luhansk People's Republic
- Years of service
- 1993–present
- Rank
- Major General (MSS)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leonid
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Luhansk
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Political party
- United Russia
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Military branch
- Security Service of Ukraine
- Military rank
- major general
- Image
- Leonid Pasechnik (cropped, 2022-02-21).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1970-03-15
- name in native language
- Леонид Иванович Пасечник
- Commons category
- Leonid Pasechnik
- social media followers
- 2845
- allegiance
- Russia
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Russia
- P10632
- Leonid Pasechnik
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Encyclopedic overview
Leonid Ivanovich Pasechnik (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Па́сечник; Ukrainian: Леонід Іванович Пасічник, romanized: Leonid Ivanovych Pasichnyk; born 15 March 1970) is a Russian politician who has served as head of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) since 2017. He holds the position in acting capacity ever since the Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2022. Pasechnik had previously held office as the LPR's Minister of State Security from 2014 to 2018.
Prior to his political career, Pasechnik served in the Security Service of Ukraine until the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, which he supported.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leonid Pasechnik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.