Serhiy Taruta
Сергій Тарута
Serhiy Taruta
Governor of Donetsk Oblast
In office
2 March – 10 October 2014
Preceded byAndriy Shyshatskiy
Succeeded byOleksandr Kikhtenko
People's Deputy of Ukraine
9th convocation
Assumed office
29 August 2019
8th convocation
In office
27 November 2014 – 29 August 2019
Personal details
Born
Serhiy Oleksiyovych Taruta

(1955-07-22) 22 July 1955
Vynohradne, Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
CitizenshipUkrainian
Political partyBatkivshchyna
EducationDonetsk State University of Management

Serhiy Oleksiyovych Taruta (Ukrainian: Сергій Олексійович Тарута, Russian: Сергей Алексеевич Тарута, tr. Sergei Alekseyevich Taruta, born 22 July 1955 in Vynohradne, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian politician and current member of the Ukrainian parliament,[1] Ukrainian businessman,[2][3][4] sometimes called an oligarch,[5] founder of Industrial Union of Donbas,[6][7] former[8] President of FC Metalurh Donetsk, and the former governor of Donetsk Oblast.[9][10]

Biography

Serhiy Taruta was born in Mariupol in 1955 and was a successful cyclist in his youth; he later claimed that he rode an average of 120 kilometres a day.[11] He studied at Pryazovskyi State Technical University[12] before going on to work at the large Ukrainian metal plant, Azovstal.[11]

Business career

In 1995, Serhiy Taruta left Azovstal for "Azovintex", a foreign trade company he co-founded. In December, 1995 he was appointed the CEO of the Industrial Union of Donbass Corporation (ISD Corporation), which he co-founded. Between 2001 and 2014, Taruta served as the Chairman of the Board of ISD Corporation.[13]

According to Forbes magazine, he ranks among the richest people in the world, with his estimated wealth being over 2.7 billion US dollars (2008).[14][15]

Political career

In 1998 and 2002 Serhiy Taruta was elected a member of the Donetsk Regional City Council for Telmanovsky electoral district, Donetsk Region.

On 2 March 2014, amidst the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov appointed Taruta Governor of Donetsk Oblast.[16] On 10 October 2014, President Petro Poroshenko removed him from office,[17][18] replacing him with Oleksandr Kikhtenko.[19][20]

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, as an independent candidate Taruta won a single-member district in Mariupol with 60.00% of the vote and is thus a member of the Ukrainian parliament since 27 November 2014.[21][1]

Taruta leads the Group for Inter-parliamentary Ties between Ukraine and Germany.[22]

He is also the Head of the Sub-Committee for Protection of Historic and Cultural Heritage of the Parliamentary Committee for Culture and Spiritual Affairs.[23]

Taruta is the co-chair of the Parliamentary Platform for the Future of Donbass, a body that aims to develop new legislative initiatives to help solve problems related to the reintegration of occupied territories of the region.[24]

He is the author of the Three Pillars peace plan for Donbass,[25] and also proposed the creation of the Vienna Format for Donbass peace talks.[26]

Taruta led the group of developers of Sustainable Development Doctrine Ukraine 2030.[27]

Serhiy Taruta is a founder of the political party "Osnova".[28][29]

On 22 September 2018, Osnova nominated Taruta as the party's candidate for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[30] On 16 March (2 weeks and one day before the election) Taruta pledged his campaign-team would support fellow candidate Yulia Tymoshenko's campaign efforts.[31] However, his name was not taken of the ballot.[31] (7 March was the last day when candidates could withdraw their names from the ballot.[32])

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Taruta was placed second on the party list of Fatherland.[33] He was elected to parliament.[34]

Private life

Serhiy Taruta is married with two daughters.[35]

Taruta is a prolific antiquities' collector.[36][37]

Honours

Serhiy Taruta was conferred the Order for the Service to Homeland of III (2006) and II degrees (2009), as well as the Order of St. Ann, II degree.

References

  1. 1 2 (in Ukrainian) Candidates and winner for the seat in constituency 58 in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Archived 2014-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, RBK Ukraine
  2. ↑ "Ukrainian oligarchs and businessmen speak in support of Ukrainian unity as Russia commences invasion of Crimea". Euromaidan Press. 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  3. ↑ 2014-03-03T10:23+02:00 10:23 03.03.2014. "Businessman Taruta replaces Donetsk Regional Administration head Shyshatsky". en.interfax.com.ua. Retrieved 2017-09-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "IX European Economic Congress - Poland, Katowice May 10-12 2017". eecpoland.eu. 1955-07-22. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  5. ↑ Luke Harding (25 April 2014). "The billionaire parachuted in to run Ukraine's most troubled region". The Guardian.
  6. ↑ Roman Olearchik (March 2, 2014). "Akhmetov joins Ukraine oligarchs in pledging to protect homeland". Financial Times. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Ukraine: Are oligarch appointments at odds with new sense of fairness?". The Guardian. March 8, 2014. Archived from the original on March 9, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Донецкий футбольный клуб "Металлург" прекратил свое существование - Футбол: деловой новостной сайт Дело Украина". Delo.ua. 2015-06-05. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  9. ↑ Andrew Roth (March 7, 2014). "Ukrainian Officials in East Act to Blunt Pro-Russian Forces". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Petro Poroshenko presented new Head of Donetsk RSA Oleksandr Kikhtenko - Official web-site of President of Ukraine". Archived from the original on 2015-01-27. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
  11. 1 2 "Сергей Тарута. История бизнесмена-мечтателя". forbes.net.ua. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
  12. ↑ "Тарута Сергей". ЛІГА.Досье. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
  13. ↑ "Сергей Тарута. История бизнесмена-мечтателя". forbes.net.ua. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  14. ↑ Alexander Techinsky (July 1, 2008). "In Pictures: The Billionaires Of Eastern Europe". Forbes. Archived from the original on April 19, 2014.
  15. ↑ "The World's Billionaires". Forbes.com. 2008-02-11. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  16. ↑ Andrew E. Kramer (March 2, 2014). "Ukraine Turns to Its Oligarchs for Political Help". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 3, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  17. ↑ "Sources: Poroshenko fires Taruta as Donetsk Oblast governor". KyivPost. 2014-10-10. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  18. ↑ Putin and Poroshenko to meet in Milan - Deutsche Welle, 11 October 2014
  19. ↑ Petro Poroshenko presented new Head of Donetsk RSA Oleksandr Kikhtenko Archived 2015-01-27 at the Wayback Machine - Press office of President of Ukraine, 10 October 2014
  20. ↑ Ukraine president replaces Donetsk governor with hardline general Archived 2014-11-04 at the Wayback Machine - Business Insider, 10 October 2014
  21. ↑ CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422 Archived 2014-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, National Radio Company of Ukraine (25 November 2014)
    Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27, UNIAN (26 November 2014)
  22. ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  23. ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  24. ↑ 2016-10-31T18:27+02:00 18:27 31.10.2016 (2016-10-31). "Тарута: парламентская платформа "Будущее Донбасса" - это шаг к реинтеграции региона". Interfax.com.ua. Retrieved 2017-09-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  25. ↑ "Мирный план для Донбасса — Три основы: Легитимность — Безопасность — Доверие - Внутренняя политика Украины – аналитика, статьи, эксклюзивы". zn.ua. 2017-02-10. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  26. ↑ "Тарута предложил альтернативу Минскому формату | NewsONE". newsone.ua. 2017-06-19. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  27. ↑ "Presentation of Sustainable Development Doctrine "Ukraine 2030" | Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". kpi.ua. 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  28. ↑ "Osnova: Taruta's political foundation". The Ukrainian Week. 18 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  29. ↑ Тарута заявил о создании новой партии | Украинска правда. Ukrainska Pravda (in Russian). 2017-04-09. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  30. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Taruta's party sent him to the presidency, Ukrayinska Pravda (22 September 2018)
  31. 1 2 "Taruta announces support for Tymoshenko at presidential elections". Interfax-Ukraine. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  32. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Another candidate appeared in favor of Gritsenko, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 March 2019)
  33. ↑ ""Батьківщина" оприлюднила свою першу п'ятірку".
  34. ↑ CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
    (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
  35. ↑ "Тарута показав свій новий маєток, розповів про окупацію Донецька та стосунки з Ахметовим". ТСН.ua (in Ukrainian). 2017-02-05. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  36. ↑ "Колекціонер Тарута задекларував 155 предмети антикваріату, 279 картин та сім годинників". Главком | Glavcom (in Ukrainian). 2018-03-31. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  37. ↑ "Колекція предметів старовини родин Платонових та Тарут - Всеукраїнська асоціація музеїв". vuam.org.ua. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
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