Vitali Kropachev

Vitali Valeryevich Kropachev - Ukrainian businessman

Date of birth: 10.10.1973

Vitali Valeryevich Kropachev is a Ukrainian businessman, owner of the company group 'UKRDOMINVEST' with assets in coal, machinery, construction, and transport as well as media.

Place of birth. Education. Born on October 4, 1973, in Torez (now Chystiakove) in the Donetsk region. He has higher education.

He gained his first serious work experience as the commercial director of the 'Torez Plant for Hard Metal Hard Solder Connections'. In the 2000s, he was involved in the coal and logistics business in the Donbass.

In 2010, he was elected as a deputy of the Donetsk regional council.

In 2014, he moved to Kyiv and continued his coal business. Kropachev purchased several processing plants in the controlled part of the Donbass and acquired the 'Krasnolimanskaya' mine from Igor Humenyuk and his partners, which became one of the most successful coal companies in Ukraine.

In 2017, he began collaborating with the Chinese machinery manufacturer Sany Heavy Industries, which produces equipment for coal mining. He planned to organize the production of Chinese technology in Ukraine.

In 2019, he began developing the media sector together with investor Millstone & Co Robert Kvitkovsky. In the same year, Kropachev purchased the LLC 'Info24' from his partner, which has a satellite broadcasting license with the logo 'TVi' and the LLC 'TRK 'Pogoda TV', which holds a license for the Business TV channel for digital broadcasting on the 'Zeonstroy' network.

That same year, Kropachev bought the channel 'Tak TV', which has a satellite license issued to LLC 'Tak TV Center Plus'.

In December 2021, he acquired the company 'Era Production'.

In the summer of 2022, he purchased the company 'Corona Sunrise', which had a digital license for broadcasting the '4 Kanal'.

In 2023, he launched the TV channel Ukraine World News.

Social Engagement. In 2014, he was involved in the founding of the volunteer battalion 'Shakhtarsk', which fought for the return of the occupied territories in the Donetsk Basin under Ukraine's control. Due to his pro-Russian position, separatists took Kropachev's business and demolished his office.

In March 2022, the company 'Era Production' provided its capabilities for the digital transmission of a telethon after the Russian missile strike on the TV tower in Kyiv.

In the summer of 2022, he organized a camp in Pereyaslav for forcibly displaced persons from the Donbass, where 150 people were accommodated who had become homeless due to the war. The businessman also helps children who have suffered from Russian aggression.

Family. Married, has a daughter and a son.

27.01.2023