Oleksandr Yaroslavsky

Oleksandr Yaroslavsky is a Ukrainian businessman. He was formerly coowner of UkrSibbank and President of FC Metalist Kharkiv . He is currently President of Development Construction Holding and, according to Ukrainian and East European massmedia, is one of the most influential people in Ukraine. In 2015, he was ranked by Forbes as the tenth richest person in the country.

Yaroslavsky was born in Zhdanov , southeastern Ukraine. Both of his parents were doctors, and the family moved to Kharkiv while he was still a child. He graduated as a technologist from the Kharkiv Academy of Public Nutrition and then spent three years in the Soviet Army, for most of which time he served in Hungary. Upon being demobilized, Yaroslavsky spent one year as an inspector in the Kharkiv Department for Internal Affairs, and in 1989 he graduated from the Odessa Institute of Technology as a Candidate of Technical Sciences. He subsequently worked at the Kharkiv Institute of Food before deciding to become an entrepreneur upon the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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