Vasyl Mykhailovych Bertash (; born 7 January 1961, in Rokytne, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian construction engineer and later politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada.
Bertash was born onn 7 January 1961 in Rokytne, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union at the time of his birth. In 1980 he graduated from Rivne Agricultural College while working at the Myrgoshchansky State Farm Technical School in Dubno and then at the Gorky collective farm in Lutsk. He pursued a postgraduate education, and in 1985 he also graduated from the Ukrainian Institute of Water Engineers with a degree in civil engineering.
After graduating, he returned to the Gorky collective farm in Lutsk then went to the Klevan Industrial Plant in Rivne. From 1987 to 1998 he was then General Director of the enterprise "Rembudmontazh". In addition, from 1992âÂÂ1998, he was CEO of Polish-Ukrainian company REMROL.
From 1998âÂÂ2005, he worked at the Rivne Oblast State Administration, heading the regional construction department. He was deputy of the Oblast Council in 2002âÂÂ2006.
From 2006âÂÂ2007, Bertash was a member of the Verkhovna Rada representing the Party of Regions. From 2010âÂÂ2014, he served as a Governor of Rivne Oblast. In 2023, he was a deputy of the Rivne Oblast Council.
Vasyl Bertash is the president of the Rivne public organization "Billiards Sports Association".
Other hobbies: sports, hunting, fishing.
He is married. His son Myroslav was born in 1981. His son was involved in a court case that later went to the European Court of Human Rights after a woman was convicted for stating that she saw Bertash's son exit the driver's side of a car involved in a 2008 accident, with the ECHR ruling that Ukraine had violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights by convicting her.