Leonid Chernovetskyi

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Леонід Михайлович Черновецький
Transl. : Leonid Mychajlovyč Černovec'kyj
Transcr. : Leonid Mychailowytsch Tschernowezkyj
Leonid Chernovetsky 2006

Leonid Mychailowytsch Tschernowezkyj (born November 25, 1951 in Kharkiv ) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, philanthropist and politician . Between 2006 and 2012 he was mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kiev .

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Chernovetskyi served in the Red Army from 1970 to 1972 . In 1977 he graduated from the Kharkiv Law Institute with a law degree. From 1977 to 1981 he was a senior investigative prosecutor of Kiev Oblast , from 1981 to 1984 he was again at the Kharkiv Legal Institute and received the degree of Candidate of Law ( Dr. jur. ). From 1984 to 1989 he was a lecturer and deputy vice -rector for scientific work at the Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev . In the early 1990s he founded Praweks, including PraweksBank, one of the largest banks in Ukraine. After moving into politics, he became a member of the Our Ukraine party and from 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament. For some time he was a freelance advisor to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko .

He is the founder of the Christian Liberal Party of Ukraine. In the 2004 presidential election in Ukraine , he ran as a candidate for president in the first round, but only achieved 0.46 percentage points.

On April 20, 2006, he won the mayoral elections of Kiev with a share of 32% of the vote against Vitali Klitschko , who was able to unite 24 percent of the votes. In the 2008 election he won again in front of Oleksandr Turchynow . He held the office of Mayor of Kiev, succeeding Oleksandr Omelchenko , until June 3, 2012.

His conduct of office was reprimanded by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov , who at the beginning of 2011 let the head of the city administration Oleksandr Popov know after months of absence of the mayor: “Be sure to find the mayor, tell him that the people of Kiev miss him, want to see him. And tell him to get back to work as soon as possible. "

On August 19, 2008 he was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class. In 2008 he sold PraveksBank for US $ 750 million. In the ranking of The Richest Ukrainians of Novoye Vremya magazine on October 31, 2014, he was ranked 74th with an estimated fortune of 80 million US dollars . According to Forbes.ua, he is the 11th richest person in Ukraine in 2015 with a fortune of $ 643 million. Since retiring as mayor, he has returned to work as an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Personal

Chernovetskyj was married twice. With his first wife he has the son Stepan Tschernowezkyj (* 1978) and a daughter (* 1979). In 2012 he married a second time and in 2014 he became a father again and a grandfather for the first time. He is a devout Christian and associated with the Kiev Embassy of God (main pastor Sunday Adelaja ).

Web links

Commons : Leonid Tschernowezkyj  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official election result of the first round of the 2004 presidential election in Ukraine ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the website of the Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine , accessed June 28, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cvk.gov.ua
  2. ↑ Ukraine: Mayor of Kiev disappeared for months in Spiegel-online from January 27, 2011, accessed on February 18, 2016
  3. ↑ a b biography on www.chernovetskiy.com.ua , accessed on July 1, 2015
  4. ↑ Leonid Tschernowezkyj's biography on file.liga.net , accessed on June 28, 2015
  5. ↑ forbes Leonid Chernovetsky , accessed June 28, 2015
  6. ↑ biography on www.chernovetskiy.com.ua , accessed July 1, 2015
  7. ↑ mirvam.org , accessed July 1, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Chernovetskyj, Leonid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschernowezkyj, Leonid Mychailowytsch (full name); Леонід Михайлович Черновецький (Ukrainian); Černovec'kyj, Leonid Mychajlovyč (transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian businessman, politician and mayor of Kiev
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkiv