Anatoly Konstantinovich Golubchenko
Official biography
Born on June 6, 1950, in Zhdanov (now Mariupol), Donetsk Oblast.
In 1972, he graduated from the Zhdanov Metallurgical Institute and started working at the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works (Ilyich Iron and Steel Works) as a rolling mill operator.
After returning from military service in 1974, he rejoined Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, where he worked until 1986, first as a roller, then as a shift supervisor, and then as a shop manager.
In 1986, he was transferred to Dnipropetrovsk, where he worked for a year as chief rolling operator of the Department of New Equipment and Technologies of the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy of the Ukrainian SSR.
From 1987 to 1991, he was Deputy General Director of Zaporizhstal.
In 1991, he moved to Kyiv, where he worked first as First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of Ukraine for Metallurgical Industry, then as Deputy Minister of Industry and Minister of Industry of Ukraine.
In 1994, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of the second convocation (in the Berdiansk constituency). Member of the Verkhovna Rada Commission on Basic Industries and Socio-Economic Development of Regions.
In August 1997, Valeriy Pustovoitenko appointed him first deputy prime minister in his government. After the government resigned in December 1999, Mr. Pustovoitenko was appointed first deputy head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU).
In 1999-2001, he was a scientific consultant at the Stakhanov Ferroalloy Plant, and in 2002-2006, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Ukrelectroaparat OJSC in Khmelnytsky.
In August 2006, he was appointed First Deputy to Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky. He oversees the work of the main departments: Fuel, Energy and Energy Saving; Emergency Situations; Protection of the Population from the Consequences of the Chornobyl Accident; Consumer Protection; Labor and Employment.
In December 2013 — January 2014, he temporarily acted as the Head of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA).
Work in Chernovetsky’s team.
In September 2006, Holubchenko was appointed First Deputy Mayor of Kyiv under Leonid Chernovetsky. After Viktor Yanukovych came to power, Chernovetsky “optimized the management structure of the KCSA” as part of “a new approach to the formation of personnel, which is being implemented by the president and the prime minister.” In June 2010, after former Housing and Communal Services Minister Oleksandr Popov was appointed Chernovetsky’s first deputy, Holubchenko became deputy head of the KCSA, without the prefix “first.” He oversees the preparation and holding of Euro 2012 in Kyiv, as well as the activities of the departments of transport, advertising, funeral services, and tourism.
He has proved to be a tough advocate of the mayor’s positions. In the “battles” in the Kyiv City Council, which were triggered by a 3.4-fold increase in housing and utility tariffs, he tirelessly argued that such a measure was absolutely justified economically and scared Kyiv residents with the confiscation of their homes for non-payment. He actively fought off the accusations levied against the current Kyiv authorities by the former mayor of Kyiv, Oleksandr Omelchenko.
Since May 21, 2013, he has been the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration (Oleksandr Popov).
In December 2013 — January 2014, he temporarily acted as the head of the Kyiv City State Administration.
On February 25, 2014, he resigned from the post of First Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration.
Family.
The politician is married. Together with his wife Olena Vasylivna (born in 1951), he raised two sons: Oleksiy (born in 1972) and Artem (born in 1981).
Awards and titles.
Golubchenko is a laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Industry of Ukraine, and was awarded the Order of Merit, III class.
Compromising material
In 2006, Golubchenko was involved in a scandal related to the construction of the first domestic professional golf center in Kyiv, which at the end of 2006 caused friction with city officials. The Golf Federation of Ukraine claimed that Golubchenko was involved in the scandal: allegedly, all the inspections by the authorities were lobbying for the interests of his wife, who is a co-investor in the construction of a restaurant on the territory of the golf center and is using administrative levers to obtain certain preferences for herself. Representatives of Olena Holubchenko, the owner of the famous fashionable Egoist restaurant and the beauty salon U Pani Anele, denied all the accusations of the golfers.
Kiosks at the Kulinichi bakery were installed illegally
According to Radio Liberty journalists, Kulinichi kiosks are being built illegally in Vyshneve and in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv. Employees are not legally hired and no medical certificates are required.
The mayor of Vyshneve, Ilya Dikov, confirmed that the Kulinichi kiosks do not have permits from the city council, and their installation was not considered at the session. He could not explain why the company’s kiosks are not being demolished in the city, as is the case with other illegal architectural forms.
The general director of the bakery, Vadym Pohrebniak, said he did not know whether his outlets were legal or not.
MP Andriy Mokhnyk asked the Prosecutor General’s Office why kiosks of a certain brand were operating without permits, but has not yet received a response.
A month ago, when employees of several Kyiv bakery plants were on hunger strike in front of the Cabinet of Ministers to protest against dismissals and closure of production facilities, Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Anatoliy Holubchenko invited them to his office. He assured them that the Kyiv authorities were not giving preferences to the Kulinichi bakery, which, according to the workers, was causing other bakeries to close. As proof of this position of the Kyiv City State Administration, Anatoliy Holubchenko cited the fact that the Kyiv city authorities refused to place Kulinichi kiosks in the capital.
From the life of the Kyiv elite: Anatoliy Holubchenko’s estate
The next hero of Ukrayinska Pravda’s series on the estates of the national elite is the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Anatoliy Holubchenko.
The vice mayor has an apartment in one of the houses in the capital’s Lipki neighborhood, where the silver Bentley of Anatoliy Holubchenko’s son is parked under the windows.
There is a house of 800 square meters and 0.75 hectares of land in the representative cottage town of Zoloti Vorota, located next door to Leonid Chernovetsky.
Golubchenko’s estate is made of noble red brick. Back in the day, when the elite were just starting to settle in the countryside, Golubchenko’s estate was considered one of the best.
Anatoliy Holubchenko’s estate at the Golden Gate is legendary: there is a 50-meter indoor swimming pool with a sliding roof.
In addition, all residents of this town have access to the Kozynka River. Golubchenko has a serious private security detail, but despite this, we managed to record his estate. In a comment to Ukrainska Pravda, he said that he became the owner of the house ten years ago. However, our sources tell a different story: in the mid-1990s, Holubchenko did move into Zoloti Vorota, but at that time he had a plot of 20 acres, just like all the first settlers of this cottage community.
He bought the rest of the land — another 55 acres — a few years ago from businessman Mykhailo Grinshpon, who used to head the Kyiv-Donbas holding.
And the old-timers of the cottage community believe that they paid at least one and a half million dollars for the land.
Golubchenko himself says that ten years ago, the house in its unfinished state cost him 40 thousand dollars.
However, the official biography of the vice mayor, published on the website of the Kyiv City Administration, claims that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Holubchenko worked exclusively in the civil service, where he was paid both low and in coupon karbovanets.
Now, according to Anatoliy Konstantinovich, the annual income of his family members is 3.5 million hryvnias.
However, he did not specify the source of his income, and when a journalist of Ukrainska Pravda tried to ask Golubchenko about it after one of the official events, he said that he would not say anything more than what he had already written in a written response.
Anatoliy Holubchenko’s wife owns the Egoist restaurant.
Kyiv car owners appeal to the country’s leadership to protect them from the machinations of Golubchenko’s gang
Holubchenko knew in advance about the bloody dispersal of people on Euromaidan
The fact that it was the current acting head of the Kyiv City State Administration Anatoliy Holubchenko who knew exactly about the authorities’ “preparation” for the brutal dispersal of protesters on the night of November 30 was told to KV by reliable sources in the building at 36 Khreshchatyk Street.
According to KV’s sources, the de facto permanent first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Anatoliy Holubchenko, in the morning of Friday, November 29, 2013, without explaining why, promptly took a leave of absence to fly to his family in Mariupol at 6 a.m. on November 30.
“At the same time, Anatoliy Konstantinovich called the prosecutor’s office for some other reason before his departure to inform his responsible comrades that he was definitely on vacation and would not be in Kyiv. At the time, Golubchenko’s behavior seemed strange. But then it became clear that the master of intrigue was playing it safe, because he knew about the upcoming events, which, by the way, Popov clearly did not know about at the time,” said one of the interlocutors of KV…..
Anatoliy Holubchenko, who had an income of 4.7 million UAH, received 13 thousand UAH of assistance in 2012
Acting First Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Anatoliy Holubchenko, according to his income declaration, earned UAH 4.7 million in 2012. His salary amounted to UAH 172.5 thousand.
Holubchenko earned UAH 3.8 million from dividends and interest, and UAH 542.7 thousand from the alienation of property. In addition, last year Holubchenko received UAH 13.4 thousand in financial aid and UAH 13.5 thousand in pension.
The official’s family earned UAH 430.5 thousand in 2012, including UAH 70.5 thousand from business activities and UAH 360 thousand from leasing property.
According to the declaration, Holubchenko owns an apartment (61 sq. m.), two houses (609 and 264.86 sq. m.), two land plots (6280 sq. m. and 933 sq. m.), a garage (36 sq. m.) and other real estate (270, 106 and 40 sq. m.).
The family of the Kyiv city official owns three apartments (61, 62 and 85 square meters), two land plots (36295 square meters and 13102 square meters) and other real estate (six buildings with the area of 472, 115, 350, 76, 1207 and 377 square meters).
Mr. Holubchenko has UAH 16.3 million in bank accounts, and his family has UAH 395 thousand. According to the declaration, neither the official nor his family owns a car.
As previously reported, Kyiv City Council Secretary Galina Gerega owns three apartments, a country house and two land plots, and earned UAH 8.7 million in 2012, while the head of the Kyiv City State Administration Oleksandr Popov, according to his declaration, supports his daughter and wife on UAH 17 thousand per month.
There will be many toilets in Kyiv, and it is possible that they will sell food
There will be no shortage of toilets in Kyiv in the coming years, and they will bring huge profits to their owners. This will be taken care of by the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Anatoliy Holubchenko, who is very fond of the toilet business. Especially if you take funds from the city budget.
We are talking about the construction of two hundred new temporary structures (TS), where Kyiv residents are already getting used to fulfilling their natural needs on the streets of the capital. But this kind of construction is always done at the expense of the investor, and no project documentation is required at all. So why spend budget funds on this and who benefits from it?
To understand all this, we had to remember that the toilet business in Kyiv (in particular, the one run by TUT SERVICE LLC) is associated with one influential official, Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Anatoliy Holubchenko. We also had to find out how TUT SERVICE LLC is doing today.
After all, it was this company that Golubchenko, who was responsible for preparing the capital for the Euro 2012 football championship, made the winner of an investment tender for the installation of modular toilets.
In addition, this company also received the right to earn money by selling space for advertising on the toilets. According to a source in the Kyiv City State Administration, despite its investment commitments, this company has installed only 35 toilets on the streets of the capital instead of 170, as was envisaged by the investment agreement. And most of them stopped working this year.
And this is despite the fact that the KCSA told the Vesti newspaper that these toilets were purchased in 2012 not even by TUT SERVICE LLC (which is the investor in the installation of the cabins), but by Kyivvodfond, which spent UAH 1.8 million from the city treasury. And although these toilets are not free at all (the fee for using them is charged by the LLC), the KCSA told Vesti that UAH 1.1 million was allocated from the city budget last year for their maintenance!
KV has long had no doubts about the ability of Kyiv officials to allocate funds from the city budget several times for the same event, and to spend amounts that exceed all reasonable limits. However, the arrogance and greed of the toilet monopolists is really impressive.
Recently, SLED.net.ua managed to get acquainted with a copy of a letter addressed by the general director of TUT SERVICE LLC to the leadership of the Kyiv City State Administration on May 21, 2013. In the letter, the director general writes that the company, as an investor in the installation of dry closets in Kyiv, has done an invaluable service to Kyiv. But in fact, he says, it earned nothing from this, and even took out a loan of UAH 9 million from a bank, which it cannot repay.
In this regard, the CEO of TUT SERVICE proposed in the above-mentioned letter to the KCSA… to buy 35 plastic dry closets from the company for UAH 25 million. As an alternative, the head of the company asked the municipality to issue the company with certificates of functional purpose for 50 temporary structures (TS with the purpose of biotoilets), which would allow the company to sell food or non-food products from them! Only then did the company promise to resume operation of 24 out of 35 toilets in Kyiv.
You must admit that it is hard to believe that TUT SERVICE LLC is run by lunatics. Rather, after becoming the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Holubchenko decided to start earning money again in an adult way by accessing the budget trough. TUT SERVICE LLC presumably paid a modest share in the city budget in 2012 for the placement of more than 35 dry closets (there were many more places reserved for them), and now wants to repurpose them for a more profitable business. This LLC also earns money by selling space for advertising on the toilets.
But it seems that the KCSA leadership refused to transfer millions from the city budget into Anatoliy Holubchenko’s pocket in such a blatantly brazen way. After that, in fact, the aforementioned draft amendments to the program of socio-economic development of Kyiv appeared. Therefore, when the deputies at the August plenary session of the Kyiv City Council vote for changes to this document, UAH 10 million will be easily written off as unnecessary project work, which Dmytro Novynskyi was talking about.
It’s easy to guess that this money, and the money that will be allocated for the installation of 200 new toilets later, will actually go to improve the well-being of Anatoliy Holubchenko. Either through any project organization of his choice or through his favorite investors (TUT SERVICE LLC), with whom the first deputy head of the KCSA terminated the investment agreement for non-compliance, of course, is not going to.
Quasi-governors of Kyiv: Golubchenko and Makeenko
According to rumors, not only has Volodymyr Makeenko not yet officially taken up the post of head of the Kyiv City State Administration, but he has not yet resigned from his previous job. And he is not going to get involved in the management of Kyiv at all. He immediately handed everything over to his old friend Anatoly Golubchenko. Who will soon retire anyway.
At the national level, of course, wild things are happening in the legal sphere. But the new conflict with the head of the Kyiv City State Administration begs to be deciphered by good lawyers. There is the first deputy head of this body, who is de facto the head in the absence of the head. And there is a new head, but it is not clear that he is the head.
The official website of the Kyiv City State Administration assures us that Mr. Makeenko is the head of the Kyiv City State Administration. However, evil tongues in the KCSA claim that, despite Presidential Decree No. 43/2014 of January 25, 2014, this is still a “fake” and another “setup” from the ruling party. They say that a number of bureaucratic rituals that could make Volodymyr Volodymyrovych a full-fledged governor have not yet been completed. These conversations are confirmed by the website of the Verkhovna Rada, where Makeenko is still officially listed as the chairman of the Regulatory Committee.
This is probably why the relevant page of the KCSA website does not even contain the date on which Mr. Makeenko took office as the capital’s governor. And KV’s sources close to the government claim that Mr. Makeenko may not have even submitted a letter of resignation to the parliamentary committee on regulations, which he chairs, to resign from his seat.
However, KV was present when Volodymyr Makeenko was beating his chest in the parliament, assuring that he had already submitted such a statement. But it is not a fact that all people never lie. No one has seen the application itself, even in the committee. In any case, if we follow the legally established procedure, Makeenko still has to convene a meeting of the committee so that the committee can consider this statement. And after that, Speaker Volodymyr Rybak should read the statement considered by the committee in the session hall.
But the quasi-governor of Kyiv has not yet convened the Regulatory Committee. He says it’s the bustle of revolutionary everyday life. A lot of things will be attributed to her later. How will you prove later that it was Makeenko, not Holubchenko, who was in charge of Kyiv for some time, and on what legal basis?
The conflict with the head of the Kyiv City State Administration, which looks very much like a scam, is confirmed by a number of KCSA orders dated February 3 and 5, which were signed not by Makeenko, but by the acting head of the KCSA Anatoliy Holubchenko.
At the same time, KV’s sources in the KCSA say, Anatoliy Holubchenko has already made it clear to all his subordinates whom they should obey. According to them, one of the first working meetings in early February showed everything, when quasi-governor Makeenko finished his short speech about nothing and left. After that, Anatoliy Konstantinovich slammed his fist on the table and explained clearly: “You will do as I say!”
“Then he privately explained to a number of other officials who were not particularly understanding that he (Holubchenko) was now Kliuyev’s man (Andriy Petrovych Kliuyev has been the head of the Presidential Administration since January 24, 2014), and Makeenko was Kliuyev’s man. And he added that everyone should obey him (Golubchenko) without question,” a source in the KCSA told KV.
Everything is clear about Kliuyev. What an old man! He must have realized that he is now not just anyone, but a quasi-governor! So now he will turn around, i.e., he will definitely improve his miserable financial situation.
It’s no secret that Volodymyr Makeenko is not good at managing municipal services. But his colleagues in the parliament know him as a very experienced and skillful politician: subtle, cautious and prone to backroom intrigue. This master of intrigue is probably why he succeeded in fulfilling the task assigned to him by his party — ensuring the adoption of the Kyiv budget. Despite the fact that the “rebellious” oppositionists have been disrupting all sessions of the not particularly legitimate Kyiv City Council since the central government abandoned the “bright European path”.
As everyone noticed, no one disrupted the session that adopted a deliberately unfeasible budget (incidentally, without money for the functions of the capital). Technically, everything was arranged by Makeenko, who even invited diplomats. And the rabid oppositionists, for example, the fascist Svoboda members, what could they do about it? They are supposedly civilized: they know that the capital of Ukraine cannot survive without the budget.
And at the end of the session, Volodymyr Makeenko made a clown show in front of journalists — a nearly three-hour press conference. The last popularly elected mayor, Leonid Chernovetsky, would have envied his creativity.
He said that the city budget was ready to be increased to 30 billion hryvnias if journalists stopped paying bribes to officials. And he will never raise fares in the city, because transportation companies are getting fat. Makeenko told journalists a lot of other funny nonsense.
It should be noted that Makeenko did not say anything constructive, for example, how the KCSA will now start to increase the revenue side of the budget. And the city budget for 2014 already provides for an increase in fares in Kyiv. The budget does not provide for compensation for Kyivpastrans and the subway, in case the authorities suddenly decide to keep the fares the same.
It seems that Vladimir Vladimirovich did not intend to delve into the topics of his own messages. And why should he? He is a smart man, and he has been in the Party of Regions for many years.
Moreover. As KV found out, Makeenko was once very friendly with Leonid Chernovetsky. At the same time, he appointed his creature, Anatoliy Holubchenko, an experienced corrupt official, as his first deputy. This means that Makeenko is Golubchenko’s patron.
Rumor has it that Anatoliy Konstantinovich slowed down his corruption schemes until Viktor Yanukovych finally dismissed Oleksandr Popov from the post of head of the Kyiv City State Administration. He did not want to sign particularly slippery orders as acting head. And with Makeenko’s arrival, he perked up: he thought that all the “interesting” draft resolutions of the KCSA would be submitted for his signature at once.
But, as we can see, it was not to be. Holubchenko had to sign the orders himself, some of which break all records for corruption. And soon it will probably be Golubchenko, not Makeenko, who will be raising fares in the capital. And why does the cunning Party of Regions member Makeenko need it? Let the eternal first deputy work and be exposed. How much longer does he have until he retires? He will turn 65 next year!
A criminal case may be opened against Golubchenko
The only remaining deputy mayor of Kyiv from the old team, Anatoly Golubchenko, was hospitalized.
Golubchenko says he is in the hospital and does not know what is happening in the mayor’s office, the Segodnya newspaper reports. The KSCA says that Holubchenko was sick at work.
“He was waiting for a meeting with Oleksandr Popov. But he was not received due to unforeseen circumstances. Anatoliy Konstantinovich took this as a bad sign, and he lost his nerve,” the mayor’s office said.
At the same time, the Presidential Administration says that it is not without reason, the newspaper writes. “The decision on Golubchenko has not yet been made. But the degree of his participation in the work of the KCSA has been discussed. He is a competent specialist with experience, but there are problems, in particular with transportation,” the source said.
The newspaper’s sources in law enforcement agencies say that 3 criminal cases will be opened on the facts of offenses in the transport sector.
As a reminder, law enforcement agencies are currently investigating 18 criminal cases regarding offenses committed by Kyiv officials. 22 people have been charged, 8 have been arrested, and 14 are under recognizance not to leave.
The prosecutor’s office is also investigating 4 criminal cases initiated on August 30 regarding the alienation of shares in Kyivgaz, Kyivkhimvolokne, Kyivmiskbud and Kyivvodokanal.
The Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal case against officials of the Kyiv City State Administration who allocated 3 hectares of land for construction in the Zhulyany neighborhood. Also, one of the heads of Kyivzelenbud, Oleh Lukash, is suspected of embezzling UAH 10 million of budget funds.
The BSA reconstruction project is ready. But there is no money
At the request of PJSC Kyivvodokanal, a project for the reconstruction of the Bortnytsia Aeration Station (BSA) has been prepared and is actually ready for implementation. But there is no money for the reconstruction itself. The Kyiv City State Administration has made sure that foreign investors have forgotten the way to Kyiv, and naturally, 4-5 billion UAH cannot be found in either the city or state budget.
As you know, for many years, Anatoly Golubchenko, the deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration for Housing and Communal Services, was responsible for the reconstruction of the BSA in Kyiv. Only in 2011-2012 was he replaced by Oleksandr Mazurchak, but now Golubchenko has returned to his native element. It is also known that both mega-experts from the housing and utilities sector, spending considerable budgetary funds, have been leading the process of developing endless feasibility studies and projects for the reconstruction of the station. But there were no results.
For example, in 2006, the same Kyivinzhproekt had already developed a feasibility study for the reconstruction of the oldest stage of the BSA. However, the developed design solution was eventually rejected because it envisaged the allocation of as much as UAH 800 million for the necessary work. As an alternative, the KCSA then announced a decision to order the development of a new project to a foreign company, which could also attract investments for its project.
At first, everything seemed to work out. The tender was won by the German company Berlinwasser International AG (a leading water and wastewater operator in Germany that implements large infrastructure projects in dozens of countries, including Russia and China), and by the end of 2007, a feasibility study and a project for the complete reconstruction of the BSA were ready. According to rumors, after that, the company decided never to work in Ukraine again.
As a non-resident, Berlinwasser International AG had to work hard and pay a lot of bribes to establish a joint venture, Berlinwasser International-Ost LLC. And at the final stage, the Kyiv City State Administration (which acted as the customer) managed to underpay the subsidiary of Berlinwasser International AG about UAH 5 million. Rumor has it that Golubchenko simply decided that this money would work better for his personal well-being.
Summary.
A typical situation with Party of Regions members. Holubchenko, like most Party of Regions officials, launders money through the state budget. Hence the expensive mansions, cars, and other luxuries. And when it came to the Maidan, Anatoly Golubchenko for some unknown reason took a vacation and hid in Mariupol.