Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi ' onMouseout='HidePop("55438")' href="/topics/Dnipropetrovsk">Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

, Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...

), known commonly as Igor Kolomoisky is an Ukrainian business oligarch, he has Israeli and Ukrainian citizenship

Ukrainian citizenship

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 although dual citizenship is prohibited in Ukraine. Kolomoyskyi is the leading partner of the Privat Group

Privat Group

The Privat Group, or PrivatBank Group is a international business group, based in Ukraine and grouped around the Privatbank. Privat Group controls dozens of companies of virtually every industry in Ukraine, Ghana, Russia, Romania, United States and other countries. Steel, oil&gas, chemical, energy...

 and former chairman of FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Football Club Dnipro is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Dnipropetrovsk.-BRIT:The club's franchise traces its history all the way back when the first team that was formed in 1918 by the Petrovsky factory and was called as BRIT . The team participated in the regional competition...

.. He is a billionaire listed by Forbes (in 2007) as the 799th-richest man in the world (with 3.8 billion dollars, in 2010 Kyiv Post

Kyiv Post

The Kyiv Post is Ukraine's leading English-language newspaper.-History:The Kyiv Post was founded in September 1995 by an American, Jed Sunden. The paper covers politics, business and entertainment. The staff is a team of Western and Ukrainian journalists. Historically, the editorial policy has...

 estimated his wealth at $6.243 billion.)

Biography

Kolomoyskyi graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1985. Married, he has two children.

Kolomoyskyi is the founder of PrivatBank

Privatbank

PrivatBank is the largest commercial bank in Ukraine, in terms of the number of clients, assets value, loan portfolio and taxes paid to the national budget. Unlike most other large Ukrainian banks, PrivatBank is not based in Kiev, the capital city, but is headquartered in Dnipropetrovsk, a smaller...

 and was appointed Chairman of its Board of Directors in 1997. Other field of activity includes: Ferroalloys, finances, oil products, mass media, metal and petroleum industries (also in Russia

Russia

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 and Romania

Romania

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).

Kolomoyskyi is also the vice-president of the Football Federation of Ukraine

Football Federation of Ukraine

The Football Federation of Ukraine is the governing body of football in Ukraine. It governs the football competitions for the Ukrainian Professional League, including the Ukrainian Cup, the Amatory, the competitions among the youth , and also the Ukraine national football team. It also sets the...

. In October 2008 Kolomoyskyi was elected as president of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine.

Selected list of assets

Through PrivatBank

Privatbank

PrivatBank is the largest commercial bank in Ukraine, in terms of the number of clients, assets value, loan portfolio and taxes paid to the national budget. Unlike most other large Ukrainian banks, PrivatBank is not based in Kiev, the capital city, but is headquartered in Dnipropetrovsk, a smaller...

 he controls Aerosvit Airlines

Aerosvit Airlines

AeroSvit Airlines closed joint stock company , operating as AeroSvit - Ukrainian Airlines / АероСвіт, is one of the Ukrainian flag carriers. Its head office is on the grounds of Boryspil International Airport in Boryspil, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine...

, Dniproavia

Dniproavia

Dniproavia is an airline headquartered at Dnipropetrovsk International Airport in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, operating scheduled and chartered passenger flights.The main shareholder of the company is PrivatBank, controlled by Ihor Kolomoyskyi.-History:...

 and Donbassaero

DonbassAero

Donbassaero is an airline with its head office on the property of Donetsk International Airport in Donetsk, Ukraine. It operates domestic and international scheduled services...

. Through the asset management company Manswell Enterprises Limited, he controls Skyways Express, City Airline

City Airline

City Airline was a regional airline based in the Air Cargo Building on the grounds of Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport in Landvetter, Härryda Municipality, Sweden. It was privately owned and operated a medium-sized European network from its main base at Landvetter. The airline was wholly owned by...

, and Cimber Sterling

Cimber Sterling

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 aviation companies.

Kolomoyskyi and Ukrainian politics

Analyst have listed Kolomoyskyi as an ally of Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko , née Grigyan , born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful...

 and her Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko. Although according to RIA Novosti (in January 2010) "Kolomoysky relations with Tymoshenko where soured some time ago, probably due to his refusal to finance Tymoshenko's 2010 presidential election campaign

Ukrainian presidential election, 2010

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". Croatia

Croatia

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n newspaper Nacional

Nacional (weekly)

Nacional is a Croatian weekly newsmagazine published in Zagreb.-History:Nacional was started in 1995 by Denis Kuljiš, Ivo Pukanić and other journalists dissatisfied with the editorial policies of Croatian weekly newspaper Globus. Both publications were hostile to the ruling HDZ government...

 claimed in September 2007 that Kolomoyskyi had became an ally of (then) Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and had financed Yushchenko's Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc.

Late 2010 rumors swirl that Kolomoiskyi assets where coming under pressure from the authorities.