Andrii Leonidovych Prokopenko ( uk, Андрій Леонідович Прокопенко; born 10 January 1982) is a

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and politician. Prokopenko is a former

Governor of Chernihiv Oblast The Governor of Chernihiv Oblast is the head of executive branch for the Chernihiv Oblast. The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of Ukraine, on recommendation from the Prime Minis ...

Biography

In 2003, he graduated from

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. Prokopenko is a

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. Former Deputy director of

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“Youth Alternative” and Executive director of the NGO "Institute of Social Development". In 2012-2013, he worked as an Adviser to the

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and headed the Communications department of the major vertically-integrated oil company -

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. Until in 2013 TNK-BP was acquired by Russian oil company

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. He was a managing partner of Prokopenko & Partners, specializing in

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campaign management,

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and

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Early political career

In 2015 Prokopenko was elected as a member of the

Chernihiv Oblast Council The Chernihiv Oblast Council ( uk, Чернігівська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Chernihiv Oblast (province) located in Northern Ukraine A list of the various regions of Ukraine and/or ...

for the party Our Land. He headed the Permanent Commission of the Chernihiv Oblast Council on issues of

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and

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. During his work, he managed to fulfill his pre-election promise and ensured the adoption of the Regional Energy Efficiency Program by the Chernihiv Oblast Council, which reimbursed to population costs of loans received for

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, and aimed to increase the

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of Ukraine and reduce the consumption of russian

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. In the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...

Prokopenko was the head of the

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regional headquarters of the party

Servant of the People Servant of the People (SN; uk, Слуга народу, Sluha narodu, ) is a liberal, centrist, pro-European political party in Ukraine. It was formed in late 2017 and was officially registered on 31 March 2018 on the basis of the previously ...

Governor of Chernihiv Oblast

Prokopenko was

from 1 November 2019 until 13 October 2020. According to

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research Andrii Prokopenko was one of the Top-3 best Ukrainian governors together with

Vladyslav Skalsky Vladyslav Volodymyrovych Skalsky ( ua, Владислав Володимирович Скальський; born 18 January 1976) is a Ukrainian civil servant and politician. Skalsky was Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast from September 2019 until Ju ...

and

Denys Shmyhal Denys Anatoliyovych Shmyhal ( uk, Денис Анатолійович Шмигаль; born 15 October 1975) is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who is the current Prime Minister of Ukraine since 2020. Prior to his appointment as prime m ...

. According to

Ministry of Communities and Territories Development (Ukraine) The Ministry of Communities and Territories Development ( uk, Міністерство регіонального розвитку, будівництва та житлово-комунального господарства України) was ...

, during the tenure of governor Andrii Prokopenko, Chernihiv region raised from 15th to 9th place among the regions of Ukraine in the ranking of socio-economic development of Ukraine's regions. In 2020 Chernihiv region was in Top-3 regions in terms of implementation of the

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reform and

local self-government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...

reform. During Prokopenko's leadership,

Chernihiv Oblast Chernihiv Oblast ( uk, Черні́гівська о́бласть, translit=Chernihivska oblast; also referred to as Chernihivshchyna, uk, Черні́гівщина, translit=Chernihivshchyna) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. T ...

entered the Top-5 among regions in terms of the pace of implementation of the program of the

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

"The Big Construction". Under the supervision of Andrii Prokopenko, in 2020, for the first time since 2012, a newly built

school A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compuls ...

was opened in

. A new school was opened in Nosivka, the city where

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Victoria Spartz Victoria Spartz ( Kulheyko; uk, Вікторія Кульгейко , Viktoriya Kul'heyko; born October 6, 1978) is a Ukrainian-born American politician and businesswoman who is the U.S. representative for . A member of the Republican Party, s ...

was born. The new school, with an area of 4,870

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, fully meets the requirements of the "New Ukrainian School" concept: it is designed for 520 school students and equipped with a professional teaching staff. In total, the school has 25 modern classrooms, 2

woodworking Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making (cabinetry and furniture), wood carving, woodworking joints, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning. History Along with Rock (geology), stone, clay and animal parts, ...

and

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workshops, a

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, sports and

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s, a comfortable

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and a

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with an artificial surface. In addition, the project envisages the school's heat supply from a

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and gas boiler houses. The cost of the project was 57.42 million hryvnas (approx. 2.2 million

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). Prokopenko paid special attention to the

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of the

during his tenure. One of the priorities was the development of

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

in the region. According to the results of 2020, a record harvest of

grain A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legum ...

was collected in the Chernihiv region - more than 5 million tons. Grain and leguminous agricultural crops were grown on an area of almost 800,000

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

s. The average yield was 6.3 t/ha, and the yield of corn, in particular, was 7.48 t/ha. Chernihiv Oblast has become one of the top 3 best regions of Ukraine for

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- farms of the Chernihiv region produced 245,000 tons of milk per year, of which 51% was extra grade milk that meets the

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high-quality standards. Another direction for economic growth was the development of

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and industrial parks, in particular, the creation of the first

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in the Chernihiv region in the city of

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. As governor, Andrii Prokopenko contributed to the equipping of modern

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to the

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, in particular the improvement of Ukrainian-made weapons. Prokopenko initiated the inclusion of the

Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within ...

historical landscape in the

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. In particular, it includes unique monuments of

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and

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. Among them is one of the oldest preserved monumental stone buildings of Ukraine, the main building of the

Principality of Chernigov The Principality of Chernigov ( orv, Чєрниговскоє кънѧжьство; uk, Чернігівське князівство; russian: Черниговское княжество) was one of the largest and most powerful states within ...

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commissioned in the early 1030s by

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and completed several decades later by his brother,

Yaroslav the Wise Yaroslav the Wise or Yaroslav I Vladimirovich; russian: Ярослав Мудрый, ; uk, Ярослав Мудрий; non, Jarizleifr Valdamarsson; la, Iaroslaus Sapiens () was the Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death. He was als ...

Local government advocacy

In 2021 Andrii Prokopenko was elected Deputy Executive Director of

Association of Amalgamated Territorial Communities The Association of Amalgamated Territorial Communities (AACT, ua, Всеукраїнська Асоціація об’єднаних територіальних громад, Vseukrayinsʹka Asotsiatsiya ob'yednanykh terytorialʹnykh hromad, ...

that represents and

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local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...

in Ukraine.

Volunteer work

Since beginning

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

joined as volunteer to Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), which provides emergency medical care to wounded soldiers and civilians in the war zone.

References

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* 1982 births Living people Politicians from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Ukrainian political consultants Governors of Chernihiv Oblast 21st-century Ukrainian businesspeople 21st-century Ukrainian politicians Our Land (Ukraine) politicians Servant of the People (political party) politicians {{Ukraine-politician-stub