Pavlo Zhebrivskyi

Pavlo Zhebrivskyi
Павло Жебрівський
Governor of Donetsk Oblast
In office
11 June 2015 – 13 June 2018
President Petro Poroshenko
Preceded by Oleksandr Kikhtenko
Succeeded by Oleksandr Kuts
Personal details
Born (1962-05-21) May 21, 1962
Nemyryntsi, Zhytomyr Oblast, Soviet Union

Pavlo Ivanonvych Zhebrivsky (Ukrainian: Павло Іванович Жебрівський, born 21 March 1962 in Nemyryntsi, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian politician, leader of the Ukrainian Platform "Sobor" and former member of the Ukrainian parliament, governor of Zhytomyr Oblast in 2005 and Donetsk Oblast from 11 June 2015 until 13 June 2018.[1]

Biography

Before fall of the Soviet Union for eight years (1983-1991) he worked as an investigator for Kiev city militsiya. During that time in 1989 Zhebrivsky received his jurist diploma from the Kiev University. After that he worked as a general director or president for various private companies from Kiev such as "Dzhaya", "Yan", "Farmatsiya-2000" and others.

From 2002 to 2012 Zhebrivsky was elected to parliament on three occasions as a member of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc. Initially he was elected as an independent politician and then as a member of the Our Ukraine party. In 2005 Zhebrivsky served as a governor of Zhytomyr Oblast. In 2009 he created own party "Ukrainian Platform" that in 2011 was merged with Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor" into Ukrainian Platform "Sobor" headed by Zhebrivsky.

After the War in Donbass began in August 2014 he resigned as a leader of the party and until January 2015 served as a senior sergeant (first sergeant) at frontlines of the War in Donbass. In January–June 2015 Zhebrivsky worked for the General Prosecutor of Ukraine[2] before being appointed as a governor of Donetsk Oblast.[3] On 9 June 2018 he tendered his resignation to President Petro Poroshenko.[4] Zhebrivsky's resignation was officially accepted on 13 June 2018.[1]

President Poroshenko appointed Zhebrivsky an auditor of the National Anti-corruption Bureau on 19 June 2018.[5]

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