Andrii Leonidovych Prokopenko (; born 10 January 1982) is a Ukrainian

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and politician. Prokopenko is a former

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Biography

In 2003, he graduated from

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. Prokopenko is a

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. Former Deputy director of

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“Youth Alternative” and Executive director of the NGO "Institute of Social Development". In 2012-2013, he worked as an Adviser to the

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and headed the Communications department of the major vertically-integrated oil company -

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. Until in 2013 TNK-BP was acquired by Russian oil company

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. He was a managing partner of Prokopenko & Partners, specializing in

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campaign management,

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and

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Early political career

In 2015 Prokopenko was elected as a member of the Chernihiv Oblast Council for the party Our Land. He headed the Permanent Commission of the Chernihiv Oblast Council on issues of

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and

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. During his work, he managed to fulfill his pre-election promise and ensured the adoption of the Regional Energy Efficiency Program by the Chernihiv Oblast Council, which reimbursed to population costs of loans received for

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, and aimed to increase the Energy independence of Ukraine and reduce the consumption of russian

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. In the

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Prokopenko was the head of the

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regional headquarters of the party

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Governor of Chernihiv Oblast

Prokopenko was

from 1 November 2019 until 13 October 2020. According to International Centre for Policy Studies research Andrii Prokopenko was one of the Top-3 best Ukrainian governors together with Vladyslav Skalsky and

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. According to

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, during the tenure of governor Andrii Prokopenko, Chernihiv region raised from 15th to 9th place among the regions of Ukraine in the ranking of socio-economic development of Ukraine's regions. In 2020 Chernihiv region was in Top-3 regions in terms of implementation of the

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reform and

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reform. During Prokopenko's leadership,

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entered the Top-5 among regions in terms of the pace of implementation of the program of the

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"The Big Construction". Under the supervision of Andrii Prokopenko, in 2020, for the first time since 2012, a newly built

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was opened in

. A new school was opened in

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, the city where

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was born. The new school, with an area of 4,870

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, fully meets the requirements of the "New Ukrainian School" concept: it is designed for 520 school students and equipped with a professional teaching staff. In total, the school has 25 modern classrooms, 2

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and

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workshops, a

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, sports and

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s, a comfortable

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and a

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with an artificial surface. In addition, the project envisages the school's heat supply from a

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and gas boiler houses. The cost of the project was 57.42 million hryvnas (approx. 2.2 million

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). Prokopenko paid special attention to the

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of the

during his tenure. One of the priorities was the development of

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in the region. According to the results of 2020, a record harvest of

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was collected in the Chernihiv region - more than 5 million tons. Grain and leguminous agricultural crops were grown on an area of almost 800,000

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s. The average yield was 6.3 t/ha, and the yield of corn, in particular, was 7.48 t/ha. Chernihiv Oblast has become one of the top 3 best regions of Ukraine for milk production - farms of the Chernihiv region produced 245,000 tons of milk per year, of which 51% was extra grade milk that meets the

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high-quality standards. Another direction for economic growth was the development of

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and industrial parks, in particular, the creation of the first

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in the Chernihiv region in the city of

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. As governor, Andrii Prokopenko contributed to the equipping of modern

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to the

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, in particular the improvement of Ukrainian-made weapons. Prokopenko initiated the inclusion of the

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historical landscape in the

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. In particular, it includes unique monuments of

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and

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. Among them is one of the oldest preserved monumental stone buildings of Ukraine, the main building of the

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commissioned in the early 1030s by

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and completed several decades later by his brother,

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Local government advocacy

In 2021 Andrii Prokopenko was elected Deputy Executive Director of Association of Amalgamated Territorial Communities that represents and

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in Ukraine.

Volunteer work

Since beginning

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

joined as volunteer to Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), which provides emergency medical care to wounded soldiers and civilians in the war zone.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prokopenko, Andrii 1982 births Living people Politicians from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Ukrainian political consultants Governors of Chernihiv Oblast 21st-century Ukrainian businesspeople Our Land (Ukraine) politicians Servant of the People (political party) politicians