Halyna Hereha
Halyna Hereha | |
|---|---|
Галина Герега | |
| Acting Mayor of Kyiv (ex officio) — Secretary of the Kyiv City Council | |
| In office 12 July 2012 – 5 June 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Leonid Chernovetsky |
| Succeeded by | Vitali Klitschko |
| Secretary of the Kyiv City Council | |
| In office 20 April 2011 – 5 June 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 August 1959 Hlynets, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Party | Independent |
| Spouse | Oleksandr Hereha |
| Children | 1 |
Halyna Fedorivna Hereha (Ukrainian: Галина Федорівна Герега; born 9 August 1959) is a Ukrainian businesswoman and politician who served as acting mayor of Kyiv from 2012 to 2014. Hereha also was a Deputy Mayor and Secretary of the Kyiv City Council from 20 April 2011 to 5 June 2014. She is the co-owner of the store chain Epicentr K along with her husband, Oleksandr Hereha.[1]
Early life
She was born on 9 August 1959 in the village of Hlynets, Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR.[2] After completing secondary school, she entered the Lviv Cooperative Technical School, from which she graduated from in 1978.[2] Hereha then attended the State University of Trade and Economics, from which she also graduated from in 1983 within the Faculty of Technology.[2]
After graduating, she worked as a master in industrial training for vocational education at the Kyiv Culinary College.[2] In 1988, she switched to being a technologist for Association 906, which was an internal technical association attached to the higher party school in Kyiv.[2] From 1994 to 1998 she was then Deputy Director of Hlybochytsia, and then up until 2003 was then the financial director of Tsermet AGS LLC.[2]
She defended her PhD thesis on "Economic efficiency of shopping malls" in 2015.
Political career
During the 2006 Ukrainian local elections, she ran for a seat within the Kyiv City Council as a member of the Kyiv Public Asset party.[3] During her time in the council, she was Secretary of the Standing Committee on Trade, Entrepreneurship, Public Catering and Services, and during an interview in 2007 she stated her main focus in the role would be on gambling.[3] Later, on 20 April 2011, she was elected with 89 votes as the new secretary of the council after being nominated by then Mayor of Kyiv, Leonid Chernovetskyi.[4] She was elected after the previous secretary, Oles Dovgiy, announced his voluntary resignation.[4]
In 2012, she ran for the Verkhovna Rada in the G215 constituency (Kyiv, Troieshchyna), but was defeated by Andriy Ilyenko, a candidate from the All-Ukrainian Union of Freedom.[5][6]
Wealth
In 2011, Oleksandr and Halyna Hereha took 27th place in the ranking of the richest people in Ukraine according to FOCUS magazine with a fortune of $890.8 million.[7] In a similar ranking for 2010, they held 26th place with a fortune of $395.4 million.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "Information from the Infoportal of Horodok District (Khmelnytskyi Region)". Archived from the original on 23 November 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f "Герега Галина Федорівна". LB.ua. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 29 January 2026.
- ^ a b "РІК ПІСЛЯ ВИБОРІВ: «ГАК» підбиває підсумки". vybory.org. Retrieved 29 January 2026.
- ^ a b "Київрада обрала секретарем Г.Герегу". РБК-Украина (in Russian). 20 April 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2026.
- ^ "Стало відомо, хто переміг на скандальному окрузі № 215". Korrespondent.net (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- ^ "Округ №215. Іллєнко перемагає, Герега звозить до ОВК молодиків". 30 October 2012. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ 200 самых богатых людей Украины 2011 года. Рейтинг Фокуса Archived 27 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ^ 200 самых богатых людей Украины. Рейтинг Фокуса 2010 Archived 19 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)