Valeriy Viktorovych Koroviy (Ukrainian: Валерій Вікторович Коровій; born on 10 November 1964), is a Ukrainian politician, who previously served as the

Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast The Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast is the Chief of Local State Administration (Ukraine), head of executive branch for the Vinnytsia Oblast. The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of Ukr ...

from 28 February 2015 to 18 September 2019.

Biography

Valeriy Koroviy was born in

Trostianets Trostianets (also Trostyanets; uk, Тростянець, ) is a city in the Sumy Oblast in Ukraine, and serves as the administrative center of the Trostianets Raion. The city lies on the Boromlya River, from Sumy. Landmarks include a neo-Goth ...

, Ukraine on 10 November 1964. He graduated from Trostyanets Secondary School in 1982. After graduating from school he worked as a pupil of a turner in the Trostyanets District Association "Agricultural Technology". From 1982 to 1984 he was in regular service in the

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. From 1984 to 1989 he studied at the Faculty of Economics of the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy. From 1990 to 1992 he worked as an economist of the collective farm "Fatherland", smt. Stryzhavka of Vinnitsa district and the head of planning and economic Vinnytsia inter-farm enterprise of granite products. In 1994, he graduated from the postgraduate study at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and defended the dissertation paper of the candidate of economic sciences ahead of time. From 2000 to 2006, he was the Deputy Head of the Vinnytsia Oblast. At the end of 2006, he was promoted as the First Deputy Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast. Appointed on 14 July 2011, he had worked as deputy mayor of

Vinnytsia Vinnytsia ( ; uk, Вінниця, ; yi, װיניצע) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast and the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. A ...

. He is married and has two sons.

Corruption Persecution

All-Ukrainian Movement Against Political Corruption "Under Control!" found that the Head of the Vinnytsia Regional State Administration, Valery Koroviy, signed an order dated June 29, 2014, in which three foreign-made cars were recognized as humanitarian aid for people with disabilities. One of the cars was Oleksandr Pron, director of the state enterprise "Vinnitsilisservis". The sum of possible losses is ₴1.2 million.

References

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