Serhiy Hrynevetskyi

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Rafailovych and the family name is Hrynevetsky.

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]

Serhiy Hrynevetskyi
2nd and 14th Governor of Odesa Oblast
In office 27 November 2020 – 1 March 2022
President	Volodymyr Zelensky
Prime Minister	Denys Shmyhal
Preceded by	Vyacheslav Ovechkin (acting)
Succeeded by	Maksym Marchenko[1]
In office 26 May 1998 – 3 February 2005
President	Leonid Kuchma Viktor Yushchenko
Prime Minister	Valeriy Pustovoitenko Viktor Yushchenko Anatoliy Kinakh Viktor Yanukovych Mykola Azarov (acting) Yulia Tymoshenko
Preceded by	Rouslan Bodelan
Succeeded by	Vasyl Tsushko
Chairman of the Odesa Oblast Council
In office 8 February 2005 – 22 July 2005
Preceded by	Volodymyr Novatskyi
Succeeded by	Fedor Vlad
In office 21 September 2000 – 19 April 2002
Preceded by	Yuriy Kazakov
Succeeded by	Volodymyr Novatskyi
First Secretary of the Odesa Regional Young Communist League of Ukraine
In office September 1986 – June 1990
Deputy of the Odesa Regional Council
Incumbent
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
Citizenship	Ukraine (1991-present) Soviet Union (1957-1991)
Nationality	Ukrainian
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)
Residence(s)	Odesa, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
Education	Odesa Technological Institute of the Refrigeration Industry, Ukrainian Order of the Red Banner of Labor Agricultural Academy
Occupation	Politician, mechanical engineer

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

Biography

Early life and education

Serhiy Hrynevetsky was born on 25 September 1957 in Luzhanka, Tarutyne Raion, in Odesa Oblast, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union. Hrynevetsky graduated from the Odesa Technological Institute of Refrigeration on 26 June 1979. On 27 February 1985, Hrynevetsky graduated from the Ukrainian Order of the Red Banner of Labor Agricultural Academy. He was educated as a mechanical engineer.

Career in Soviet Ukraine

He then worked as a technological engineer at the Rodzdilnianski district repair shop until 1980. The same year, he took the position as a senior engineer, which he would hold until 1989. From 1982 to 1984, Hrynevetsky the First Secretary of the Rozdilnianski district committee of the Leninist Communist League of the Youth of Ukraine of Odesa Oblast. From 1984 to 1986, he served as the Second Secretary as the LCLY of Ukraine.

From 1986 to 1990, he served as the First Secretary of the Odesa Regional Committee of the Young Communist League of Ukraine. From 1990 to 1991, he went back to Rozdilnianski district as the regional secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Odesa Oblast.

Personal life

Hrynevetsky speaks both Ukrainian and Russian, the latter of which is his second language. He currently resides in Odesa.