Mykola Mykolyovych Lavrenko ( uk, Микола Миколайович Лавренко: born May 17, 1956 in

Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

government official, football investor and entrepreneur. He has chaired the association football club

FC Oleksandriya Football Club Oleksandriya ( uk, Футбольний клуб Олександрія), commonly known as Oleksandriya, is a Ukrainian professional football club based in the city of Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad Oblast. Founded in 1948, the club pla ...

, founded FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv and served as an acting president of the

Professional Football League of Ukraine Professional Football League of Ukraine ( uk, Професіональна футбольна ліга України, translit=Profesionalna futbolna liha Ukrayiny; also known as PFL) is a sport organization and collective member of the Footb ...

Biography

Lavrenko was born in Sevastopol in 1956 to a family of sailors.Лавренко Николай Николаевич
politrada.com. In 1957, his family moved to

Oleksandriya Oleksandriia () is a city located in Oleksandriia Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast (region) in central Ukraine. Administratively, Oleksandriia serves as the administrative center of Oleksandriia Raion (district). Oleksandriia also hosts the administrat ...

Central Ukraine Central Ukraine ( uk, Центральна Україна, ''Tsentralna Ukraina'') consists of historical regions of left-bank Ukraine and right-bank Ukraine that reference to the Dnipro River. It is situated away from the Black Sea Littoral N ...

. Lavrenko began working as a mechanical assistant at the Oleksandriya Electrical and Mechanical Plant. He later climbed the engineering career ladder, from dispatcher to production manager. In 1982 he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute, majoring in Machine Engineering Technology. From 1984 to 1995, Lavrenko was a director of a printing equipment plant of the Manufacturing Association "Soyuzpoligraphprom" (Soviet Printing Industry) in Oleksandriya, and from 1995 to 1999 he was the chairman of the board of the OJSC Oleksandriya Plant of Printing Equipment. In 1990 Lavrenko established a factory football team, Polihraftekhnika (now

) that entered Ukrainian football competitions among KFK (amateurs). In 2004 the club was reorganized as a city team and in 2014 was sold to a local agricultural company,

UkrAhroKom UkrAhroKom ( uk, УкрАгроКом) together with "Hermes-Treidynh" ( uk, Гермес-Трейдинг) is a Ukrainian group of agriculture companies. It is headquartered in Oleksandriia Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast. In July 2018, the company was r ...

. Between 2000 and 2003 Lavrenko served as a first deputy head of the

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 ...

State Administration, chaired by Vasyl Motsnyi. From 2003 to 2005, he headed the Vinnytsia Tax Administration. In 2005 Lavrenko was appointed as first vice-president of VS Energy International Ukraine. During the winter of 2009–2010 he served as an acting president of the

, while

Svyatoslav Syrota Svyatoslav Anatoliyovych Syrota ( ua, Сирота Святослав Анатолійович; born 1 October 1970) is a Ukrainian sports functionary and former player. Master of Sports of Ukraine (1995). Biography At 24 he finished the Ukrain ...

was under investigation.Президента ПФЛ усунули з посади через підозри у фінансових махінаціях
www.newsru.ua. 25 November 2009 In 2017, Lavrekno created the football club Livyi Bereh in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

alongside

Mykola Pavlov Mykola Petrovych Pavlov ( uk, Микола Петрович Павлов) (russian: Николай Петрович Павлов; born 20 June 1954 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a former Ukrainian football defender, and former head-coach of Illyc ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lavrenko, Mykola 1956 births Living people People from Sevastopol 21st-century Ukrainian businesspeople People's Democratic Party (Ukraine) politicians Ukrainian football chairmen and investors Dnipro Polytechnic alumni 21st-century Ukrainian engineers FC Oleksandriya FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv