Ihor Tolstykh
Ihor Mykhailovych Tolstykh ( uk, Ігор Михайлович Толстих) is a Ukrainian journalist and TV manager. From March 2013 to March 2014 he was the Chief Executive Officer of Rada TV, the television channel of the Ukrainian parliament Verkhovna Rada. Biography Early years. Education Ihor Tolstykh was born on 19 October 1956 in Mariupol, then part of the Soviet Union. During his military service with the Soviet Border Troops he was stationed in Armenia. In 1982 he graduated in journalism from the Rostov State University in Rostov-on-Don. Career Since 1982 Tolstykh was a reporter of Mariupol city newspaper '' Pryazovia Worker''. In September 1991 he became the deputy editor of the business newspaper ''Contact'' in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. From 1995 to 1997 he was the dean of the faculty of journalism of the Donetsk Institute of Social Education. From 1997 to 1998 he led the press service of the Donetsk Oblast Administration under then governo ...
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Mariupol
Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was the tenth-largest city in the country and the second-largest city in Donetsk Oblast, with an estimated population of 425,681 people in January 2022. However, Mariupol has been militarily controlled by Russia since May 2022, and the city's residents are now estimated to number around 100,000, according to Ukrainian authorities. Historically, the city of Mariupol was a centre for trade and manufacturing, and played a key role in the development of higher education and many businesses while also serving as a coastal resort on the Black Sea. From 1948 to 1989, the city was known as Zhdanov, named after Andrei Zhdanov, a high-ranking official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the name was part of a larger ef ...
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