Uładzimir Ivanavič Hančaryk or Vladimir Ivanovich Goncharik (Belarusian: Уладзімір Іванавіч Ганчарык, Russian: Владимир Иванович Гончарик; born 29 April 1940) is a Belarusian politician.
Hančaryk was born in Lahojsk, a town outside of Minsk, in the Byelorussian SSR.
Beginning in 1986, Hančaryk was a chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus.
[citation needed] Hančaryk was the only opposition candidate who stood against incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko in the 2001 Belarusian presidential election.
[2] Many considered Hančaryk to be the best candidate for the opposition because of his previous government experience and his centrist stances.