Ihor Kalietnik

Ihor Kalietnik is a Ukrainian politician, former first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.

Born in 1972 in village of Klembivka, Yampil Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Kalietnik graduated the Vinnytsia Agrarian University in 1993 as agronomist. From 1995 to 2005 he worked for the Ukrainian customs across the country. In 2001 Kalietnik graduated the law school of Kiev University and in 2004 the Odesa Law Academy to receive title of the Candidate of Judicial Sciences.

For short period he worked as a judge of the Dniprovsky district court of Kiev in 2005-2006. In spring of 2006 Kalietnik unsuccessfully ran for the Ukrainian parliament at the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent member of the People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko. In November 2007 he ran again at the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent member on a party list of the Communist Party of Ukraine finally becoming the People's Deputy of Ukraine. On March 22, 2010 Kalietnik was appointed the Head of Customs Service of Ukraine, yet his membership in parliament did not finish until February 4, 2011.

On November 22, 2012 he resigned as the head of Customs Service and again was reelected on party list to the Ukrainian parliament at the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election now as a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In 2012-2014 Kalietnik served as the first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada. After the events of Euromaidan he resigned as the first deputy chairman and in June 2014 left the ranks of Communist Party of Ukraine.

In the fall of 2014 Kalietnik ran again for the Ukrainian parliament at the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent candidate at the 41st electoral district in Donetsk (Budyonivsky and Petrivsky districts), Donetsk Oblast, however the election failed to take place in the electoral district due to the War in Donbass.