Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi

Oleksandr Vladylenovych Yaroslavskyi (Ukrainian: Олександр Владиленович Ярославський; born 5 December 1959) is a Ukrainian businessman. He was formerly co-owner of UkrSibbank and president of FC Metalist Kharkiv (2005-2012). Yaroslavskyi is the president of DCH (Development Construction Holding) and one of the most influential people in Ukraine according to Ukrainian and Eastern European media. In 2016, Forbes ranked him among the top ten richest people in Ukraine. In November 2018, Russia imposed sanctions against 322 citizens of Ukraine, including Yaroslavskyi.

Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi
Олександр Ярославський
Born (1959-12-05) 5 December 1959
OccupationBusinessman
Children5

Early life

Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi was born in Zhdanov (now Mariupol) in the south of the Ukrainian SSR. Both of his parents were doctors. A few years later, his parents moved to Kharkiv. The future businessman graduated as a technologist from the Kharkiv Academy of Public Nutrition and then spent 3 years doing military service in the Soviet Army in Hungary. Upon being demobilized, he took jurisprudence courses provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and spent a year working as an inspector in the Kharkiv Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property (so called OBKhSS). In 1989, he graduated from the Odesa Institute of Technology as a Candidate of Technical Sciences and worked at the Kharkiv Institute of Food Technology. The collapse of the Soviet Union became a new reference point in his career.

Political activity

In 2002–2006, Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi was a People's Deputy in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of IV convocation as a member of the Party of Greens of Ukraine.

From 2012 to 2020, he was in conflict with Hennadiy Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv.

In 2022, he fled Ukraine after being involved in a car accident that killed one person. He returned in July 2022.[1]

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