Andriy Pavlovych Raykovych (Ukrainian: Андрій Павлович Райкович; born on 7 April 1956), is a Ukrainian politician who has been governor of

Kirovohrad Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast ( uk, Кіровоградська область, translit=Kirovohradska oblast; also referred to as #Nomenclature, Kirovohradschyna — uk, Кіровоградщина) is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (prov ...

since 7 March 2022. He had served as the Mayor of

Kropyvnytskyi Kropyvnytskyi ( uk, Кропивницький, Kropyvnytskyi ) is a city in central Ukraine on the Inhul river with a population of . It is an administrative center of the Kirovohrad Oblast. Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its name ...

from 2015 to 2022.

Biography

Andriy Raykovych was born in on 7 April 1956 in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

, at the time a city in the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

and the capital of the

Estonian SSR The Estonian SSR,, russian: Эстонская ССР officially the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic,, russian: Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика was an ethnically based adminis ...

. His paternal grandfather comes from the village of Berezovka,

Dolynska Raion Dolynska Raion was a raion (district) of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the city of Dolynska. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced ...

(now part of the

Kropyvnytskyi Raion Kropyvnytskyi Raion is a raion (district) of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Kropyvnytskyi (until July 2016 Kirovohrad). Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

). He participated in

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, until repressed in 1937. Andriy's father, Pavlo, is a participant in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, who remained after the end of the war to serve in Tallinn. In

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

, he met his future wife, who was according to the

Soviet nationality law Soviet nationality and citizenship law controlled who was considered a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and by extension, each of the Republics of the Soviet Union, during that country's existence. The nationality laws were only ...

Russian by nationality. (All citizens of the USSR were also citizens of an SSR (

Soviet Socialist Republic The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics ( rus, Сою́зные Респу́блики, r=Soyúznye Respúbliki) were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( ...

), and all citizens of the SSRs were also citizens of the USSR.) After the end of his service, his father worked as a crankshaft grinder, and his mother worked as a kindergarten teacher. Later, the family moved to the city of

Dolynska Dolynska () is a city in Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Dolynska urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . It covers . Until 18 July 2020, Dolynska was the administr ...

, where Andriy graduated from high school. He began his career in 1977, becoming an electrician at the Budindustriya plant in

Kirovohrad Kropyvnytskyi ( uk, Кропивницький, Kropyvnytskyi ) is a city in central Ukraine on the Inhul river with a population of . It is an administrative center of the Kirovohrad Oblast. Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its name ...

. After that, he served in the Soviet army for two years. In 1982, he graduated from the Kirovohrad Institute of Agricultural Engineering with a degree in power supply for industrial enterprises. From 1979 to 1986, he was an engineer at the Dolynska Poultry Plant, where over time he was appointed instructor of the Dolynska District Committee of the

Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...

. In 1986, he became the head of the Dolynska bakery plant, and in 1988, the Dolinsky poultry plant. Between 1990 and 2004, he was a director and then chairman of the board of the open joint-stock company Poultry Plant in Kirovohrad. In 1992, he became the owner of the Yatran Meat Processing Plant. In 1997, he became one of the co-founders of the Kirovograd regional branch of the People's Party of Ukraine. In the 1998 parliamentary elections, Raykovych ran on the list of the People's Party (No. 175), but was not elected. Four years later, he again unsuccessfully ran for the Ukrainian national parliament

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

from the bloc "

For United Ukraine! For United Ukraine! ( uk, «За Єдину Україну!», translit=Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to participate in the parliamentary election held on 30 March 2002. ...

". In the 2006 Ukrainian local elections, he became a member of the Kirovohrad Oblast Council of the 5th convocation. In the same year, he unsuccessfully ran in the

2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

. In the early parliamentary elections of the following year, Raykovych was also included in the list of the People's Party, but was not again elected. In the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, he was reelected as a member of the Kirovohrad Oblast Council. He was a member of the standing committee on budget, financial activities and socio-economic development. In September 2011, he became the General Director of the Yatran Meat Processing Plant. In the elections of the mayor of Kirovohrad in 2015, Raykovych ran for the

Petro Poroshenko Bloc European Solidarity ( uk, Європейська солідарність, Yevropeis'ka solidarnist', YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in vario ...

party and was elected in the second round, gaining 48.6% of the vote. He was sworn to office on 27 November. The city was renamed to Kropyvnytskyi in 2016. During the 2020 local elections, Raykovych once again decided to run for the mayor's seat, running from the Proposition party. According to the results of the first round of elections, he received 53.53% of the votes. On 7 March 2022, by decree of the President of Ukraine

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 ...

, Raykovych was appointed

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

.https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/1162022-41609

References

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