Halyna Fedorivna Hereha ( uk, Галина Федорівна Герега; born 9 August 1959) is a Ukrainian businesswoman and politician who served as acting
mayor of Kyiv
The Head of Kyiv City ( uk, Київський міський голова, translit=Kyivskyi miskyi holova), unofficially and more commonly the Mayor of Kyiv ( uk, Мер Києва, translit=Mer Kyieva), is a city official elected by popular ...
from 2012 to 2014. Hereha also was a Deputy Mayor and Secretary of the
Kyiv City Council
Kyiv City Council ( uk, Київська міська рада, translit=Kyivska miska rada), also known as Kyivrada ( uk, Київрада), is the city council of Kyiv municipality, the highest representative body of the city community. The me ...
from 20 April 2011 to 5 June 2014. She is the co-owner of the store chain
Epicentr K
Epicentr K ( uk, Епіцентр К, Epitsentr K) is a national chain of stores in Ukraine that specializes in home improvement and gardening. The company is one of the first in Ukraine to introduce a chain of home improvement stores and has ...
along with her husband,
Oleksandr Hereha.
Biography
She was born on 9 August 1959 in the village of
Hlynets
Hlynets ( uk, Глинець) is a Ukrainian village in Yavoriv Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (province). It belongs to Yavoriv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Until 1949 it was known as Liashky ( pl, Laszki) when it was renamed a ...
,
Yavoriv Raion
Yavoriv Raion ( uk, Яворівський район) is a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Yavoriv. It was established in 1939. Its estimated population is .
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative ...
,
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...
.
She defended her PhD thesis on "Economic efficiency of shopping malls" in 2015.
In 2011, Oleksandr and Halyna Hereha took 27th place in the ranking of the richest people in Ukraine according to FOCUS magazine with a fortune of $890.8 million. In a similar ranking for 2010, they held 26th place with a fortune of $395.4 million.
In 2012, she ran for the Verkhovna Rada in the G215 constituency (Kyiv,
Troieshchyna
Troieshchyna (, uk, Троєщина, lit=Trinity, translit=Troyeshchyna) also known as Vyhurivschyna-Troieshchyna since 1997 (, uk, Вигурівщина-Троєщина) is a large neighborhood of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, the biggest ...
), but was defeated by Andriy Ilyenko, a candidate from the
All-Ukrainian Union of Freedom.
See also
*
List of mayors of Kyiv
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Kyiv, Ukraine. It includes positions equivalent to mayor, such as chairperson of the city council executive committee.
Mayors
Cossack Hetmanate
* Bohdan Somkovych, 1649-1660
* Danilo Polotsky, ...
References
1959 births
Living people
People from Lviv Oblast
Mayors of Kyiv
21st-century Ukrainian politicians
21st-century Ukrainian women politicians
Ukrainian women in business
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