Oleksandr Bakumov

Oleksandr Serhiyovych Bakumov (; born 25 April 1989) is a Ukrainian soldier, professor, and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 173rd electoral district since 29 August 2019. He is a member of Servant of the People. Prior to becoming a People's Deputy, he was a captain in the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine during the war in Donbas, for which he was decorated with the Order of Merit. Early life and career Oleksandr Serhiyovych Bakumov was born on 25 April 1989 in the city of Kharkiv in what was then the eastern Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. He graduated from secondary school in 2005 with honours, and graduated from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in 2010 with a specialty in jurisprudence. He graduated from National University of Kharkiv with honours. In 2012, he completed his post-graduate studies at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University after defending his dissertation, titled "The Constitutional right of Ukrainian citizens to participate in elections and referenda, and problems of its implementation". In 2017, six years after originally graduating from the National University of Kharkiv, he graduated with honours from the university's faculty of history. He is a qualified historian and history teacher. From 2012 to 2015, Bakumov worked as an assistant in the department of constitutional law at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Following his military service, he became a professor at the constitutional and international law department of the . In November 2018, he was promoted to vice-rector of the university. He is a Candidate of Legal Sciences.