of Ukraine Arsen Avakov confirmed that Turchynov was awarded the Maxim's machine gun model 1910 (PM M1910). On 2 May 2018, by the decree of the President of Ukraine, he was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise of the Fifth Class. Personal life Oleksandr Turchynov's wife, Hanna Turchynova (born 1970) works as dean of the faculty of natural geography and ecology at National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. They have one son, Kyrylo (born 1994), who finished his master's degree thesis in 2014. Turchynov is known to abstain from tobacco and alcohol. He belongs to the 1.9% of Ukraine's population that identify as Protestant. Although some in the media have labelled him a pastor, the Associated Baptist Press and the European Baptist Federation report that he is an elder and occasional lay preacher at his Kyiv church, the Word of Life Center, which is a member of the Evangelical Baptist Union of Ukraine. Social networks have nicknamed him the "Bloody Pastor" (). He responds to this nickname with irony: "I think this nickname is much better than what the Ukrainians gave to Putin". Some media occasionally regard Turchynov as the "Consigliere of Yulia Tymoshenko". References External links |- |- |- |- |- 1964 births Living people Politicians from Dnipro Acting presidents of Ukraine Acting prime ministers of Ukraine First vice prime ministers of Ukraine Secretaries of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada Third convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Fourth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Fifth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Seventh convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Directors of the Security Service of Ukraine All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" politicians Hromada (political party) politicians People's Front (Ukraine) politicians Pro-Ukrainian people of the war in Donbas Pro-Ukrainian people of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine People of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation People of the Euromaidan Ukrainian Baptists Ukrainian people of Russian descent National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine alumni 20th-century Ukrainian economists 20th-century Ukrainian politicians 21st-century Ukrainian politicians