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People's Deputy of Ukraine (1994–1998); People's Deputy of Ukraine (1994–1998); People's Deputy of Ukraine (1990–1994); Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR (1987–1990)."},{"q":"Where did Vitaliy Masol study?","a":"Vitaliy Masol was educated at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute."}],"related":[{"name":"Vasyl Durdynets","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vasyl-durdynets"},{"name":"Georgy Pyatakov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/georgy-pyatakov"},{"name":"Arseniy Yatsenyuk","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arseniy-yatsenyuk"},{"name":"Anatoliy Kinakh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anatoliy-kinakh"},{"name":"Pavlo Lazarenko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pavlo-lazarenko"},{"name":"Valeriy Pustovoitenko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/valeriy-pustovoitenko"},{"name":"Victor Pinchuk","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/victor-pinchuk"},{"name":"Kostyantyn Zhevago","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kostyantyn-zhevago"},{"name":"Vadym Novynskyi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vadym-novynskyi"},{"name":"Petro Poroshenko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/petro-poroshenko"},{"name":"Rinat Akhmetov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/rinat-akhmetov"},{"name":"Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/oleksandr-yaroslavskyi"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/vitaliy-masol-921be54718.jpg","width":500,"height":626,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Arhivarius at Russian Wikipedia","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masol.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Vitaliy Masol","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaliy_Masol","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q546694","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546694","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Masol.jpg by Arhivarius at Russian Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masol.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Vitaliy Masol, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Masol.jpg — Arhivarius at Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Vitaliy Masol\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/vitaliy-masol. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T06:59:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/vitaliy-masol","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/vitaliy-masol","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/vitaliy-masol?lang=ne"}}