Maxim Efimov

Maxim Viktorovich Efimov was born on 1 November 1974 in the city of Petropavlovsk in the northern Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Petropavl in Kazakhstan). He is a graduate of the University of Bern's Department of Business Administration, the Donetsk National University (specialising in economics) and the Donetsk National Technical University (with a degree in ferrous metallurgy).[1]

Efimov began working in 1996, as general director of the Kramatorsk Metallurgical and Machine-Building Company. From 1997 to 1998 he worked at Kramatorsk Multi-Industry Marketing Company before moving to Kramatorsk Aeronautical School, where he remained for a year before moving to the EnerhoMashSpetsStal plant in Kramatorsk.[1] In 2006[2] or 2007, Efimov was appointed as head of EnerhoMashSpetsStal.[1]

Efimov was first elected to a political position in the 2006 Ukrainian local elections, being elected to the Kramatorsk City Council as a member of Party of Regions. He was subsequently re-elected in the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, before leaving the Party of Regions on 25 August 2014.[2]

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Efimov was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 48th electoral district, campaigning as an independent. He defeated incumbent People's Deputy Yuriy Boyarskyi with 34.12% of the vote to Boyarskyi's 31.15%.[3] In the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), Efimov joined the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, and was first deputy chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship.[2]

In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, Efimov ran to be mayor of Kramatorsk as the candidate of Our Land (though he was not a member of the party), but was unsuccessful after making it to the second round.[1]

Efimov ran again in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent in the 48th electoral district, and was again successfully elected, defeating independent candidate Denys Oshurko with 54.88% of the vote to Oshurko's 19.09%.[4] In the Verkhovna Rada, he joined Dovira, and became a member of the Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Committee, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the De-occupation and Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Minorities, and the Verkhovna Rada International Relations Committee.[2]

On 22 May 2022, Efimov, alongside 16 other People's Deputies, participated in the founding of the Restoration of Ukraine parliamentary group. Efimov, along with Igor Abramovych, was declared co-chairman of the parliamentary group.[5]