Vasyl Horbal

Vasyl Horbal
Василь Горбаль
Governor of Lviv Oblast
In office
April 2010 – December 2010
Preceded byMykola Kmit
Succeeded byMykhailo Tsymbaliuk
Personal details
Born (1971-03-18) 18 March 1971
PartyParty of Regions
Alma materKyiv University
Academy of Internal Affairs

Vasyl Mykhailovych Horbal (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Горбаль; born 18 March 1971) is a Ukrainian politician and economist. Horbal formerly served as a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from 2002 to 2010, representing the Party of Regions, until he was appointed Governor of Lviv Oblast in April 2010. In December 2010, he was dismissed from the post of governor by Viktor Yanukovych after the Lviv Oblast Council expressed no confidence in Horbal. Prior to entering politics, Orbal served as an economist banker, and in 1996 became director of Ukrgasbank.