Oleksiy Mulyarenko

Oleksiy Mulyarenko
Олексій Муляренко
Official portrait, 2015
Governor of Rivne Oblast
In office
28 April 2016 – 24 June 2019
Preceded byVitaliy Chuhunnikov
Succeeded byIhor Tymoshenko (acting)
Personal details
BornOleksiy Vitalievich Mulyarenko
(1976-10-15) 15 October 1976
Rivne, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
PartyUkrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR)
Petro Poroshenko Bloc
EducationAcademician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities
OccupationEntrepreneur
Politician

Oleksiy Mulyarenko (Ukrainian: Олексій Муляренко; born 15 October 1976) is a Ukrainian politician. He most notably served as Governor of Rivne Oblast from 2016 to 2019 under President Petro Poroshenko. Before entering politics, he worked in the private sector of Ukraine and became head of the construction-materials company Stal-M. He also served as secretary of the Rivne City Council prior to his governorship.

Early life

Mulyarenko was born on 15 October 1976 in the city of Rivne, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[1] His father, Vitaliy, works in construction, specifically for fire-retardant treatment of wooden structures.[2] His mother, Tetiana, is also engaged in construrction.[2] He later graduated from the Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities in Rivne with a degree as a manager-economist.[3] After graduation, he worked as head of a production site at the company "Met-Expo", and just a few months later he became the deputy director of the local branch in Lutsk for "Met-Expo".[4] He then worked as an entrepreneur in the field of armoured doors until 2006, when he became Director of Stal‑M LLC.[5] In April 2017, he became the founder of "Steel Security of Ukraine".[5]

Simultaneously, he became a coordinator for the charity project "Our Children", "Save Lives", and "Our Heart for Children!".[5]

Political career

In 2010, he was nominated by the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) to the local elections for the Rivne City Council of its 6th convocation, but he ultimately lost and was not chosen as a deputy.[2] Afterwords, he was appointed chairman of the Rivne branch for UDAR, which he did until 2014.[2] However, in early 2013 he was also appointed to the Executive Committee of the Rivne City Counci as a member.[3] According to a regional media report, he took part in the Euromaidan protests and was involved in organizational work at a tent camp.[6]

During the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he attempted to run for a seat as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc for single mandate electoral district 153, but was not chosen.[7] Soon after, though, he became an assistant-consultant to the MP Vitaliy Chuhunnikov until Chuhunnikov was appointed as Governor of Rivne Oblast.[2] In 2015, he was elected to the Rivne City Council, and during the first session of the VII convocation he became the secretary of the council.[2]

On 28 April 2016, then President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, appointed him as Governor of Rivne Oblast, replacing Chuhunnikov who was sent to Kyiv.[8] In 2017, during an interview with Uryadovyi Kurier, he stated that decentralization was the oblast's top priority alongside foreign investments, as he wished to diversify the industrial base beyond major Soviet-era enterprises.[9] He also significiantly improved energy efficiency, and the oblast became ranked in Ukraine for doing so.[9] However, there was a surge in northern Rivne oblast during his tenure of Rovno amber mining, which is illegal in Ukraine to mine, and he had to request Interior Minister Arsen Avakov to return units of the National Guard of Ukraine to combat this.[10] He also alleged in 2017 that there were attempts to destabilize Rivne after protestors blocked the regional administration building.[11]

On 19 May 2019, he rewrote a letter of resignation to be approved by the government regarding the post of governor.[12] He was formally dismissed from the post on 24 June 2019, and soon after he announced his candidacy for the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent candidate, but was again not elected.[12] He has since attempted to run repeatedly for a membership again in the Rivne City Council as a member of the Strength and Honor party, but has so far failed to win an election.[3]

Personal life

He was formerly married to Olena Vladyslavivna, an entrepreneur in metal products manufacturing.[2] Together they had three children: Andriy, who took over as director of Stal-M from Oleksiy in 2016 and is linked to the National Corps party, Ivan, and Ariana.[2] He later remarried to Natalia Mulyarenko (née Firko), who was the former head of the Volyn brarnch of the UDAR party and a co-founder of STD GROUP RIVNE. [2]Together they have one son, Oleksiy, and Natalia has a step-son from her previous marriage, Yuriy.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Центральна виборча комісія - Вибори народних депутатів України 2019". www.cvk.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Муляренко Олексій Віталійович". Четверта влада (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  3. ^ a b c "Муляренко Олексій Віталійович — Біографія, Балотування, Фракції, Політична Агітація | ПолітХаб". www.chesno.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  4. ^ "Муляренко Олексій Віталійович". dovidka.com.ua. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  5. ^ a b c "Муляренко Олексій Віталійович | Влада | Досьє | OGO.UA - Рівненський інформаційний портал". ogo.ua. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  6. ^ "Рівняни побачили несподіваний Євромайдан". ОГО.ua (in Ukrainian). 28 June 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  7. ^ "Центральна виборча комісія України - WWW відображення ІАС "Вибори народних депутатів України 2014"". www.cvk.gov.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  8. ^ "Рівненську ОДА очолив Олексій Муляренко із «БПП»". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). 28 April 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  9. ^ a b "Голова Рівненської обласної державної адміністрації Олексій Муляренко: «Наш пріоритет — децентралізація»". Урядовий Кур’єр. 13 May 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  10. ^ "Глава Ровненской ОГА просит Авакова привлечь Нацгвардию для борьбы с «янтарной мафией»". Слово и Дело (in Russian). 26 February 2026. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  11. ^ "Новости Ровно - Ровенский губернатор заявил о дестабилизации ситуации в регионе — online.ua". news.online.ua (in Russian). 4 May 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  12. ^ a b "Президент офіційно звільнив Муляренка. Хто тепер керуватиме Рівненською ОДА". Радіо ТРЕК (in Ukrainian). 24 June 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
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