Poltava is considered the spiritual capital of Ukraine. This is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities, rich in historical and cultural monuments. Poltava region has given many well-known figures of culture, art and literature. Among them are Nikolay Gogol, Oles Gonchar, Mikhail Drahomanov, Nikolay Lysenko, etc. The region is famous for its agricultural enterprises, because Poltava Oblast is the leader in milk production in Ukraine and the record holder for corn yields. That's why TOP-20 most influential Poltava citizens according to National rating of influence "Elite of Ukraine"-2021 is headed by a representative of agrarian business.
Experts awarded the first place among the most influential people of Poltava region to the president of the Kernel Group agricultural holding Andrey Verevsky. He also occupies the 5th place in the TOP of the richest Ukrainians according to Forbes. Today, Verevsky Agroholding is the largest exporter of corn and vegetable oil. The businessman exerts influence on the local government, in particular the city government. After all, the mayor of Mamai is a relative and business partner of Verevsky.
The second place went to the owner of "Ferrexpo" Konstantin Zhevago. He is the youngest billionaire in Europe. One of the significant assets of the businessman is located in the Poltava region - a mining and processing plant. Zhevago was a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the XNUMXth convocation, owns the Vorskla football club and the Avtokraz holding.
He took the third place in the list Alexander Trukhin, People's Deputy of Ukraine, head of the regional organization of the "Servant of the People" party.
Oleg Sinegubov, the chairman of the Poltava regional state administration, came in fourth place in the rating.
Poltava City Mayor, Alexander Mamai took the fifth place in the TOP-20. As already mentioned, Mamai is a relative of millionaire Verevsky, headed the city council in 2010-2018 and was elected mayor in 2020.
Another representative of the Poltava business in the ranking of the richest Ukrainians took sixth place. This is the co-founder of the Novaya pochta company Vladimir Popereshnyuk.
The seventh place is held by the current chairman of the Poltava Regional Council Alexander Bilenko. The founder of the company for the production of non-alcoholic beverages, an active participant in the volunteer movement. He heads the regional council since 2015.
People's deputies of Ukraine placed eighth and ninth Oleg Kulinich и Konstantin Kasai. And closes ten influential ones Pavel Ovcharenko, director of the company "Ukrtatneft" from the orbit of Ihor Kolomoiskyi.
The second ten most influential Poltava citizens look like this:
- Philip (Osadchenko) - metropolitan of the Poltava and Myrhorod UOC;
- Yuriy Shapovalov - People's Deputy of Ukraine from the "Renaissance" party;
- Fedor Bubnyuk - archbishop of the Poltava Diocese of the OCU;
- Anton Centenary - Head of the Poltava Region Prosecutor's Office;
- Vitaliy Maletsky - the mayor of Kremenchug;
- Alexey Movchan - People's Deputy of Ukraine from the "Servant of the People" party, project manager at "ProZorro.Prodazhi";
- Sergey Kaplin - ex-people's deputy of Ukraine. leader of the political party "Party of Ordinary People of Sergei Kaplin";
- Yevgeny Borzilov - head of the SBU department in the Poltava region;
- Artem Rodygin - Acting Head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Poltava Region;
- Dmitry Naletov — People's Deputy of Ukraine of the XNUMXth convocation, chairman of the subcommittee on tourism and resorts, co-owner of the companies "Aktivnaya strana" and "Activity"
