Serhiy Hrynevetskyi

Serhiy Hrynevetskyi
2nd and 14th Governor of Odesa Oblast
In office
27 November 2020 – 1 March 2022
Appointed byVolodymyr Zelensky
Preceded byVyacheslav Ovechkin (acting)
Maksym Kutsyi
Succeeded byMaksym Marchenko[1]
In office
26 May 1998 – 3 February 2005
Appointed byLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byRouslan Bodelan
Succeeded byVasyl Tsushko
Chairman of the Odesa Oblast Council
In office
8 February 2005 – 22 July 2005
Preceded byVolodymyr Novatskyi
Succeeded byFedor Vlad
In office
21 September 2000 – 19 April 2002
Preceded byYuriy Kazakov
Succeeded byVolodymyr Novatskyi
First Secretary of the Odesa Regional Young Communist League of Ukraine
In office
September 1986 – June 1990
Deputy of the Odesa Regional Council
Assumed office
November 2020
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
23 November 2007 – 27 November 2014
Personal details
Born (1957-09-25) 25 September 1957 (age 67)
Luzhanka, Tarutyne Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipUkraine (1991-present)
Soviet Union (1957-1991)
NationalityUkrainian
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)
Residence(s)Odesa, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
EducationOdesa Technological Institute of the Refrigeration Industry, Ukrainian Order of the Red Banner of Labor Agricultural Academy
OccupationPolitician, mechanical engineer

Serhiy Rafailovych Hrynevetsky (Ukrainian: Сергій Рафаїлович Гриневецький, born 25 September 1957) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the Governor of Odesa Oblast, first from 1998 to 2005, and again from 27 November 2020 to 1 March 2022 following his appointment by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky dismissed him on the seventh day of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1]

Hrynevetsky was a member of the Verkhovna Rada in the 6th and 7th convocations.[2]

  1. ^ a b Zelensky replaces heads of Odesa, Cherkasy regional state administrations, Ukrinform (1 March 2022)
  2. ^ "Zelensky appoints Hrynevetsky as Odesa Regional State Administration's head – decree". Interfax-Ukraine. 27 November 2020. Retrieved February 10, 2022.