Serhiy Kuzmenko
| Serhiy Kuzmenko Сергій Кузьменко |
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22 January 1975 Oleksandriia, Ukraine, USSR |
| Occupation | state official, businessman |
| Children | 2 |
Serhiy Kuzmenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Анатолійович Кузьменко, born 27 November 1954) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman and state official. He currently serves as head of the Kirovohrad Regional State Administration (Governor of Kirovohrad Oblast) since 16 September 2014.
After graduating the Kirovohrad National Technical University in 1997, Kuzmenko worked at the family business Holovkivska Agro-Firm out of Holovkivka which in 2000 became known as "UkrAhroKom".
In 2002 he went into politics becoming a council deputy of the Oleksandriia Raion council and in 2010-2012 a head of the Oleksandriia Raion State Administration. In 2011 Kuzmenko graduated the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Institute of the National Academy for Public Administration.
In 2012 Kuzmenko became a deputy head of the Kirovohrad Regional State Administration, but at the end of 2012 was elected as member of Party of Regions to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). After the Euromaidan, he left the party. At the end of 2014 Kuzmenko was appointment head of the Kirovohrad Regional State Administration.
Along with his father, Kuzmenko own a family business known as "UkrAhroKom" which owns over 75,000 hectares (190,000 acres) of agrarian area in eastern and southeastern portions of Kirovohrad Oblast. The company owns the Oleksandriia Sugar Plant, transportation company "Hermes Trading", a couple of livestock farms including "Petrykivske moloko" (Petrykivka Milk), four grain elevators, a river terminal in Svitlovodsk.
Kuzmenko was the owner of FC UkrAhroKom Holovkivka that existed in 2008-2014. After acquiring PFC Oleksandriya from Mykola Lavrenko in 2013, he merged both clubs under the name FC Oleksandriya in 2014.
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