Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk was a Soviet-Ukrainian physicist, politician and social activist. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was rector of the Lviv University. In 2007–2010 he was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine, he was father of the leader of the rock band Okean Elzy Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.
