Vadym Novynskyi (; born 3 June 1963
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(since May 2012) businessman, owner of

Smart Holding Group Vadym Novynskyi (; born 3 June 1963
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, and politician.

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of the UOC-MP. According to

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Novinsky's

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in March 2013 was $1.9 billion.

Biography

Novynskyi was born 3 June 1963 in Staraya Russa (then

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, now

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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 The PJSC Lukoil Oil Company ( stylized as LUKOIL or ЛУКОЙЛ in Cyrillic script) is a Russian multinational energy corporation headquartered in Moscow, specializing in the business of extraction, production, transport, and sale of petrol ...

North West and then buying Ukrainian

metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sci ...

companies. On 29 May 2012 Novynskyi obtained

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"for distinguished services to the country" under the order of

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Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of D ...

. Novynskyi lives in

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. 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 So ...

, who made his major fortune in the "dashing 90-e" on privatization of many Ukrainian enterprises. As an

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Novynskyi won the 7 July 2013 by-election in constituency 224 in

Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

(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

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(8 July 2013)By-election to parliament in 224th majority constituency of Sevastopol scheduled for 7 July, says CEC

(18 April 2013) Before the election Novynskyi had stated he would join the

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if he won. He did so on 5 September 2013. After the (controversial) March 2014 annexation of Crimea by

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 russian: Оппозиционный блок , colorcode = , logo = Opposition Bloc.png , logo_size = 240px , leader1_title = Chairman , leader1_name = Rinat Akhmetov (one wing)Dmytro Firtash & Yuriy Boyko ...

.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament

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(8 November 2014)
People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections – CEC

(8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament – CEC

(8 November 2014) Since May 2014 Novynskyi is under criminal investigation for "unlawful imprisonment or kidnapping by a conspiracy" and "abuse of power or authority" for allegedly helping President Yanukovych. On 8 December 2016 parliament deprived Novynskyi of his parliamentary immunity. In the

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 ...

Novynskyi was reelected in parliament as an

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candidate in single-seat constituency 57 (

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). During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, 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,

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Novynskyi owns Ukraine's

Smart Holding Group Vadym Novynskyi (; born 3 June 1963
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. 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. 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 Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * F ...

and supermarket chain Amstor.Vadim Novinsky

(March 2013)

Private life

Novynskyi is married and has four children.

Awards

Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, el, Πατριαρχεῖον Ἱεροσολύμων, ''Patriarcheîon Hierosolýmōn;'' he, הפטריארכיה היוונית-אורתודוקסית של ירושלים; ar, كنيسة الرو� ...

: Golden Cross of the High Taxiarch of the Knights of the Most Holy Sepulcher (January 2019)

References

External links

* https://news.pn/en/politics/130863 * http://www.intellinews.com/the-kremlin-s-point-man-in-kyiv-500000172/?archive=bne
Official website of Smart Holding Group
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