Mykola Mykolyovych Lavrenko (: born May 17, 1956, in

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) is a Ukrainian government official, football investor and entrepreneur. He has chaired the association football club

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, founded

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and served as an acting president of the

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Biography

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

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

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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

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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

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alongside

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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 non-playing staff FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv non-playing staff