Oleksandr Zinchenko of the National Space Agency of Ukraine, he was relieved of this post in March 2010. Oleksandr Zinchenko died on June 9, 2010 at the age of 53, and was buried at Kiev's Baikove Cemetery on June 11. Ukrainian politicians Yulia Tymoshenko, Oleksandr Turchynov, Mykola Tomenko and Borys Tarasyuk were present at his funeral. Oleksandr Zinchenko Oleksandr Oleksiovich Zinchenko (; April 16, 1957 in Slavuta – June 9, 2010 in Kiev) was a Ukrainian politician who was Director-General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine from 2009 to 2010. Oleksandr Zinchenko had a controversial career that includes Soviet Komsomol leadership,
Viktor Yanukovych with them. On 15 December 1967, at the age of 17, Yanukovych was sentenced to three years incarceration for participating in a robbery and assault. On 8 June 1970 he was convicted for a second time on charges of assault. He was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and did not appeal against the verdict. Decades later, Yanukovych characterized his arrests and incarceration as "mistakes of youth". In 1971, Yanukovych married Lyudmyla (née Nastenko), a niece of Yenakiyeve city judge Oleksandr Sazhyn. In July 1974, Yanukovych enrolled at the Donetsk Polytechnic Institute. In 1976, as a second-year student, he was