Vadym Novynskyi (; born 3 June 1963 Liga.net) is a
Ukrainian
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UOC-MP
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( uk, Українська православна церква, Ukrainska pravoslavna tserkva; russian: Украинская православная церковь, Ukrainskaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', UOC), common ...
. According to
Forbes
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Novinsky's Net Worth in March 2013 was $1.9 billion.
Biography
Novynskyi was born 3 June 1963 in
Staraya Russa
Staraya Russa ( rus, Старая Русса, p=ˈstarəjə ˈrusːə) is a town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Polist River, south of Veliky Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast. Its population has steadily decreased o ...
(then
USSR
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, now
Russia
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). In 1985, he graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Civil Aviation in engineering management systems.
From 1985 until 1986 he worked for various companies in Russia. Novynskyi worked in Ukraine since 1996 starting with Lukoil North West and then buying Ukrainian metallurgy companies.
On 29 May 2012 Novynskyi obtained
Ukrainian citizenship
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Any person born to a Uk ...
"for distinguished services to the country" under the order of
Ukrainian President
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Viktor Yanukovych
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. Novynskyi lives in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe.
Kyi ...
. He also has a residence in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
(Russia).
The general public better known him as a
Russian oligarch
Russian oligarchs ( Russian: олигархи, romanized: ''oligarkhi'') are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Sovi ...
, who made his major fortune in the "dashing 90-e" on privatization of many Ukrainian enterprises.
As an
independent
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Sevastopol
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(located in the southwestern region of the
Crimean Peninsula
Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...
) with 53.41% with a turnout of 23.91%.Novinsky wins by-election to Rada in Sevastopol, according to CEC Interfax-Ukraine (8 July 2013)By-election to parliament in 224th majority constituency of Sevastopol scheduled for 7 July, says CEC Interfax-Ukraine (18 April 2013) Before the election Novynskyi had stated he would join the
Party of Regions
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if he won. He did so on 5 September 2013. After the (controversial) March 2014 annexation of Crimea by
Russia
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Novynskyi was banned from entering the peninsula by the Russian-appointed Crimean authorities.
In the October
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014.
Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.Opposition Bloc.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament
Ukrinform
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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 Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parliament on 21 Ma ...
Novynskyi was reelected in parliament as an Opposition Bloc candidate in single-seat constituency 57 ( Donetsk Oblast).
During the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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, Novynskyi declared that he would remain in Ukraine and stated that there are no excuses for the Russian attack.
Controlled assets
With partner and fellow billionaire, Andrei Klyamko Novynskyi owns Ukraine's Smart Holding Group. In 2006 they united their Ukrainian metallurgy companies into Smart Holding Group. In 2007 they exchanged them for a stake in Metinvest. Smart Holding Group has a 23.75% stake in iron ore producer
Metinvest
Metinvest is an international group of steel and mining companies that owns operations in Ukraine, Italy, Bulgaria, the UK and the US, mines ore and coal, produces coke, smelts steel and produces rolled products, pipes and other steel products. T ...
. Smart Holding also owns large assets in the oil and gas sector, shipbuilding, development, agriculture and its controlling Unex Bank and BM Bank. Its revenues in 2011 stood at $14.2 billion.
Novynskyi also has stakes in oil and gas company
Regal Petroleum
Regal Petroleum plc is a petroleum company based in London with assets in Romania, Ukraine, Greece, and Egypt. It was founded by Frank Timiş in November 1996, and is listed on the London Alternative Investment Market
AIM (formerly the Altern ...
Forbes
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(March 2013)
Private life
Novynskyi is married and has four children.
Awards
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Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
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: Golden Cross of the High Taxiarch of the Knights of the Most Holy Sepulcher (January 2019)