Andrii Pecherov

The Verkhovna Rada announced on 3 November 2026 that Andrii Pecherov had died. Its message read that it was with sadness that it reported the death of a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the first convocation and a founder of the modern Ukrainian state, and it offered sincere condolences to his relatives, friends, colleagues and all who knew and respected Andrii Vasylovych. He was 88. The cause and place of death were not disclosed, and no funeral details had been announced at the time of reporting.

Andrii Vasylovych Pecherov was born on 13 December 1937 in the village of Vyshneve, then in Kotovsk district of Odesa oblast and now in Podilsk district, into a peasant family. From 1951 to 1955 he studied at the Ananiv technical school of agricultural mechanisation in Odesa oblast. He went on to the faculty of agricultural mechanisation at the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy, graduating in 1960 as a mechanical engineer. Much later, from 1982 to 1984, he studied at the Academy of the National Economy under the USSR Council of Ministers, which gave him a second qualification as an economist.

Pecherov started work in 1960 as a mechanic and then chief engineer of the Semypolky state farm in Brovary district, Kyiv oblast. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1964. He was senior engineer of the mechanisation department of the Boryspil vegetable and dairy farm trust from 1964 and head of mechanisation and chief engineer of the Darnytsia trust from 1966. In 1971 he became first deputy head of the Kyiv regional Silhosptekhnika farm machinery association, and from 1979 to 1982 he headed the agriculture department of the Kyiv regional executive committee.

After his studies in Moscow he moved to Odesa in 1984 as deputy head of the agriculture and food industry department of the regional party committee. In 1985 he became deputy chairman and head of the planning commission of the Odesa Regional Council, and from 4 September 1985 to 5 April 1990 he chaired its executive committee. He was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR of the 11th convocation and a delegate to the 27th Congress of the CPSU.

In March 1990 he was elected People's Deputy for the Velykomykhailivka constituency No. 309 with 63.95 percent in the first round. He served from 15 May 1990 to 10 May 1994, belonged to the group For a Soviet Sovereign Ukraine and chaired the parliamentary Commission on Planning, Budget, Finance and Prices. In 1990 he also headed the Ukrsilhospkhimiia agrochemical association. He ran again in 1994 and took 3.46 percent, sixth of ten candidates. From 1995 to 1999 he was an adviser at the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Moldova, and in April 2001 he received the first rank of the civil service.

Parliamentary reference material published in 1998 by the Association of People's Deputies of Ukraine describes Pecherov as married with two children. His decorations included the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Order of the Badge of Honour and several medals. Little else about his private life has been made public.

Pecherov belonged to the generation of Soviet era managers who carried their experience into the first parliament of independent Ukraine. As chairman of the budget and finance commission during 1990 to 1994 he worked on the planning, budget and price questions of a republic leaving the Soviet economy, and the Verkhovna Rada itself remembered him as one of the founders of the modern Ukrainian state. In Odesa oblast he is remembered as the head of the regional government in the second half of the 1980s and as a native of Vyshneve, where local history lists him among the village's notable people.