# Oleksiy Kostusyev

Oleksiy Oleksiiovych Kostusyev (Ukrainian: Олексій Олексійович Костусєв; June 29, 1954) is a Ukrainian politician and former mayor of Odesa. Kostusyev is the father of fellow Ukrainian politician Oleksiy Honcharenko Kostusyev divorced Oleksiy's mother when Oleksiy was three years old.
Kostusyev previously served as the head of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine, the nation's premier competition regulator.

## Family

Father Oleksiy Oleksiyovych (1928–1983) — Captain of the 1st rank, sailor-border guard; mother Violla Alekseevna (1932) — a doctor. Wife Irina Vasylivna (1965) — engineer; son Goncharenko Oleksiy Oleksiyovych – Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VIII and IX convocations; daughter Viola (born 1988) is a student.

## Education

In 1971–1975 he studied at the Odesa Institute of National Economy, majoring in economics. In 2004 he defended his doctoral dissertation on Methodological principles of forming an effective competitive environment in the economy of Ukraine (Odesa State University of Economics).

## Biography

People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 5th convocation 04.-10.2006 from the Party of Regions, № 29 on the list. At the time of the election: Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. Member of the Committee on Budget (07.-10.2006), member of the Party of Regions faction (05.-10.2006). He resigned on October 5, 2006.
People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 3rd convocation 03.1998–12.2001 from SPU-SelPU, № 20 on the list. At the time of the election: President of the Charitable Foundation. B. Derevyanka (Odesa). Member of the Socialist Party and SelPU faction (“Left Center”) (from 05.1998), then (until 12.1999) — member of the SPU faction; member of the group “Labor Ukraine” (since 12.1999). Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Energy Saving of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety (07.1998–02.2000); Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy, Department of People. Household, property and investment (02.2000–12.01). He resigned on December 14, 2001. 03.1994 — Cand. in the people. dep. Of Ukraine, October Constituency № 294, Odesa. region, nominee voters, 1st round — 33.33%, 1st place out of 11 votes; 2nd round — 36.45%, 2nd place with 2 pret.
08.1975–01.91 — M.Sc., postgraduate student, assistant, senior teacher, associate professor, head of the department of social flight. theory, Odesa Institute of Naval Engineers. 1976–77 — service in the army. 01.1991–01.93 — head Department, Deputy chairman for Economic Affairs, Kyiv District Executive Committee of Odesa. 01.1993–07.94 — Chairman, Odesa city privatization committee. Dep. Odesa. City Council dep. (1990–1994). The head of the Assoc. privatization bodies of Ukraine (since 1993). He was the founder and leader of the Odesa Civil Forum. He was a member of the political executive committee of the Labor Ukraine party (since 11.2000). Chairman of the Flight Party "Union" (10.2004–11.05). President of the Charitable Foundation named after B. Derevyanka (Odesa) (1998). Member Nat. councils for coordination of activities of national and regional bodies and local self-government (since 12.2000); member of the Nat. Council for the Adaptation of the Legislation of Ukraine to the Legislation of the European Union (since 08.2000); Chairman of the Interstate Council on Antitrust Policy of the CIS member states (since 2004); member of the Interdepartmental Commission on Information. policy and information. Security at the National Council. Security and Defense of Ukraine (since 2003).
Civil servant of the 1st rank (September 2001). Honored Economist of Ukraine (November 2002). Order of Merit III (January 2001), ІІ (May 2004). Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (June 2004). Order of the Holy Apostolic Grand Duke Vladimir III (04.2001), II century. (06.2006).
According to the results of the vote count in the local elections in Ukraine, which took place on October 31, 2010, the mayor of Odesa became a candidate from the Party of Regions, head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine Oleksiy Kostusev. This was announced by the chairman of the Odesa city election commission Alexander Akhmerov during a meeting of the Odesa city election commission.
In 2010, Kostusev declared an income of more than ₴1.7 million, of which one million was listed as "material assistance". The mayor later stated that he had entered in the column "material assistance" — an inheritance from a deceased friend. Subsequently, on January 31, 2011, Kostusev initiated a meeting of the Odesa City Council session where they decided that Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych were not heroes of Ukraine.
On October 31, 2013, the mayor of Odesa Alexey Kostusev wrote the application for resignation of the Odesa mayor.