Yuriy Smirnov (minister)
Born 17 August 1948 in the city of Buy, in the Kostroma Oblast of what was then the Russian SFSR.Held the positions of investigator, inspector, chief of departments and directorates in the Kharkiv and Luhansk Oblasts.Since 1997 — Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs for the Southeastern Region — chief of the MVS directorate in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.26 March 2001 he was appointed as the Minister of Internal Affairs by the decree of the President of Ukraine.In 2003—2005 Smirnov was an adviser of the President, deputy of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.