Vasyl Sviato

Sviato was born on 7 May 1948 in the village of Kormilcha, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. In 1971, he graduated from the University of Kyiv with a specialty as a physicist-nuclear scientist. After graduation, he started working at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He eventually also started working for the Department of Atomic Energy Problems. In 1985, he received his PhD on the topic of nuclear excitation processes arising from positron-electron annihilation in atoms and the beta decay of odd tin isotopes. == Political career ==

In the 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was elected in the second round to the Verkhovna Rada for electoral district no. 416, which is within Khmelnytskyi Oblast as a self-nominated candidate. == Personal life and death ==

He was married and had one son born in 1973 and a daughter born in 1983. == References ==