Oleksandr Vilkul family name Vilkul
Oleksandr Yuriyovych Vilkul (Ukrainian: Олексaндр Юрійович Вiлкул; born 24 May 1974), also known as Aleksandr Yuryevich Vilkul (Russian: Александр Юрьевич Вилкул) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who is currently serving as Head of the Ukrainian Military Administration of Kryvyi Rih. He has previously served as Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Born in Kryvyi Rih in 1974, Vilkul originally pursued a career in mining, eventually becoming manager. In 2003, he joined the Party of Regions, becoming a People's Deputy of Ukraine in 2006. He served in the role until being appointed as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast by President Viktor Yanukovych in March 2010. He served in the role for two years before being appointed as Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for infrastructure, regional development, construction, utilities, and housing economy, a position he served in until the Revolution of Dignity.
Vilkul continued to be active in politics, serving as co-chair of the Opposition Bloc party until its 2022 ban, as well as leading his own party. In February 2022, he was chosen as Head of the Military Administration of Kryvyi Rih by Ukrainian authorities following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.Early life and career
Oleksandr Yuriyovych Vilkul was born on 24 May 1974 in Kryvyi Rih, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union. His family had been miners for four generations. Oleksandr's great-grandfather, Oleksandr Vasyliovych Borovskyi (1896 – 1972) was a participant in the Russian Civil War, an honorary citizen of Kryvyi Rih, and member of the leadership of the Dzerzhinsky Mining Department. He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
In 1996, Vilkul graduated from Kryvyi Rih Technical University, specialising in open-pit mining. He started his career as an assistant excavator driver at OJSC Southern Iron Ore Enrichment Works (PHZK), eventually becoming the mine master.
From 1997 to 2001, Vilkul was General Deputy Director of PHZK's Commerce and Finance Department. Afterwards, he served as Vice-President of Economics and Foreign Economic Relations of the Academy of Mining Sciences of Ukraine for a year before returning to PHZK, where he served as deputy CEO. The next year, he became the general director of Central Iron Ore Enrichment Works (TsHZK), a position he served in until 2006. From 2006 to 2010, he was honorary president of TsHZK and Northern Iron Ore Enrichment Works, a company he became general director of in 2004.
Over a period of five years, he was among the top ten managers, according to ratings of InvestGazeta's "TOP100: Greatest Managers of Ukraine" and Galitskiye Kontrakty's "Guards of Managers".Personal life
Family
Vilkul is married to Olena Anatoliivna Vilkul (born 1978). They have one daughter, named Mariya (born 2008).
Vilkul's father, Yury Vilkul, was mayor of Kryvyi Rih from 2010 until 2020. In the 2010 mayoral election, Yury ran as a candidate for Mayor from Party of Regions and in the 2015 mayoral election for Opposition Bloc. In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, Yury was elected a member of the Kryvyi Rih city council for Vilkul Bloc – Ukrainian Perspective; he had also gained most votes in the city election for Mayor but withdrew from the second round of the mayoral election due to healt reasons. After the death of his successor as mayor Konstantyn Pavlov on 15 August 2021, Yury was elected as city council secretary and thus acting mayor, as mayoral powers are temporarily exercised by the city council secretary.
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