Oleksiy Poroshenko

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Олексій Іванович Порошенко
Transl. : Oleksij Ivanovyč Porošenko
Transcr. : Oleksiy Ivanovich Poroshenko

Oleksij Ivanovich Poroshenko (born June 11, 1936 in Sofian-Trubaiovca , Romania / today Odessa Oblast , Ukraine ; † June 16, 2020 in Kiev ) was a Ukrainian businessman , politician and hero of Ukraine .

Oleksiy Poroshenko was the general director of the Ukrprominvest group and a member of the Vinnytsia Oblast parliament and the father of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko .

biography

The Roshen chocolate from Po roshen ko has the middle part of the surname in the company name.

Poroshenko completed a degree in mechanical engineering in Lviv in 1957 and then worked in Bender as chief engineer until 1974 . In 1974 he was appointed director of the Bender Research and Experimental Repair Plant in the Republic of Moldova . According to Spiegel, there are indications in archives that Oleksy spent two years in prison for stealing state property.

After the independence of Ukraine in 1992, he moved to Kiev , where he and his son "and others", the Closed Joint Stock Company Ukrprominvest (Ukrainian Група "Укрпромінвест" ) founded, one investment and conglomerate , whose 50 companies including the shipbuilding and arms company Leninska Kuznya , beet, grain and seed trading company , owning over 100,000 hectares of land, car companies, one of the largest taxi companies in Kiev and shares in an insurance company. His son was general director there until 1998, and Oleksij Poroshenko is currently in charge of the Ukrprominvest holding company. He died in a hospital in Kiev on June 16, 2020 after suffering a stroke the day before .

Awards

Oleksij Poroshenko was already honored during the Soviet Union. In Ukraine he was named Hero of Ukraine by President Viktor Yushchenko on June 23, 2009, “for outstanding personal services to the Ukrainian state in the development of agriculture, the introduction of modern technologies in cultivation of crops” , after he had already in January In 2007 he received the order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class.

family

His wife Yevhenia Serhiyivna died in 2004 and his eldest son Mychailo died in a car accident in 1997 under mysterious circumstances. Both are buried in the family vault in Kiev. His grandson Olexiy (* 1985) was a member of the regional parliament of Vinnytsia Oblast and has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada since November 2014 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on Politrada.com , accessed February 22, 2015
  2. ↑ a b The Great Unknown , Der Spiegel 21/2014, page 86 from May 19, 2014
  3. ↑ Munzinger archive Petro Poroshenko (completely read in on February 25, 2015)
  4. ↑ "Plant" Leninska Kuznya "(accessed on 29 March 2014)
  5. ↑ The father of the fifth president, Hero of Ukraine Oleksiy Poroshenko died in glavcom.ua on June 16, 2020; accessed on June 16, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 481/2009 of June 23, 2009
  7. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 21/2007 of January 18, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Poroshenko, Oleksiy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poroshenko, Oleksij Ivanovich (full name); Порошенко, Олексій Іванович (Ukrainian); Porošenko, Oleksij Ivanovyč (transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian businessman and politician, hero of Ukraine
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Safjany , Romania
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2020
Place of death Kiev