Viktor Pilipishin

Date of Birth: 06.04.1961

Place of Birth. Education. Born in the village of Ravskoe, Nesteriv district of Lviv region. He spent his childhood in the village of Shevchenkovo near Mykolaiv, where the whole family moved. In 1985, he graduated from the Kharkiv Law Institute with a specialization in 'Law'.

Career. 1978-1979 - Locksmith at the Kyiv Shipbuilding Plant.

After military service and graduating from university, from 1985 to 1988, he was an investigator in the police.

1988-1990 - Head of the Legal Department of the Executive Committee of the Pechersk District Council in Kyiv.

1990-1991 - Chief Legal Advisor of the State Tax Inspection of Kyiv.

Since 1991 - Lawyer at the Kyiv City Bar. During this time, he also started businesses - flower growing, greenhouse construction, tea production. Twice elected to the Kyiv City Council (1998 and 2002).

In 2004, he left business and became the first deputy head of the Pechersk District State Administration in Kyiv, then held a similar position in the Shevchenko District Administration.

From 2005 to 2006, Viktor Pilipishin was already Deputy Mayor of Kyiv Alexander Omelchenko.

In 2006, he became the head of the Shevchenko District Administration of the capital. He was elected as a deputy and head of the Pechersk District Council.

In September 2007, he was elected as a deputy of Ukraine at the VI Congress of the Litvin Party (elected 5th on the party list) to the Parliament. In May 2008, he resigned from his mandate, preferring to work in his previous position as head of the Shevchenko District Administration. On November 24, 2010, he was dismissed by the order of President Viktor Yanukovych.

Member of the People's Party (1998-2010), served as deputy chairman and head of its main organization (the party leader - twice Speaker of Parliament, deputy Volodymyr Lytvyn). On January 29, 2010, due to disagreements with the policies pursued by the leadership of the People's Party, Viktor Pilipishin decided to leave the ranks of the People's Party.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he ran in the Ukrainian Parliament in the majority electoral district No. 223 (Kyiv, Pecherskiy district). Due to the impossibility of determining the voting results in district No. 223, ZIK announced re-elections, which were later scheduled for December 15, 2013. In the by-elections of 2013, he was elected as a deputy in the majority district No. 223. On January 15, 2014, he took the oath as a deputy of Ukraine.

On January 16, 2014, he voted for the 'dictatorship laws' - a package of anti-democratic laws that significantly restricted citizens' rights and freedom of speech.

Views and Evaluations. According to the magazine 'Public People', Viktor Pilipishin's business was largely associated with consulting and investment in the agricultural sector. 'Usually,' he said, 'I was 100% owner of structures, risked, took loans from banks. If I - 'fell in', if - earned. My most successful business that I was able to realize is a network of greenhouse complexes in Ukraine. In Kalynivka, there is a greenhouse complex of about 50 hectares, there are complexes in Kyiv, Vinnitsa.'

Pilipishin also owned a tea company - brands 'Askold', 'Batik', 'Domashniy', the largest tea factory in Ukraine.

As head of the Shevchenko district, Viktor Pilipishin became known, according to the magazine 'Business Capital', mainly because he restructured the district's management towards business relations. For example, in July 2006, the district council doubled rental prices for commercial properties. Additionally, at the request of the head of the district administration, for the first time in the history of Kyiv, the market value of rent was established even for communal facilities.

According to experts, the success of the Lytvyn Block in the 2007 parliamentary elections was largely due to the well-established work of the main organization of the People's Party and the personal involvement of Viktor Pilipishin. The block received 3.9% of the votes in Ukraine and 6.6% in Kyiv, surpassing even the Communist Party.

In the spring of 2008, after the war with Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi ended with the announcement of early elections, party colleagues nominated Pilipishin as a candidate for the post of Kyiv Mayor. He took fourth place, surpassing Leonid Chernovetskyi, Oleksandr Turchynov, and Vitali Klitschko.

Family. Viktor Pilipishin is married. He has three children - Alena (1984), Alexander (1989), Katya (2004). He has three grandchildren.

04.05.2022