Sobolev Yegor

Date of birth: 26.02.1977

Place of birth. Education.

Born in Krasnodar (Russia). In 1993 he entered the historical faculty of the South Sakhalin State Pedagogical Institute. In 1995, he stopped in the third year and moved to his grandmother in Ukraine.

Career.

In 1995, he primarily worked as an advertising agent, then as a correspondent for the newspaper Femida-Press in Donetsk.

From 1995 to 1996 - host of the program Economic Week on the Donetsk TV channel 7x7.

In 1996, Yegor Sobolev was a correspondent for the financial department of the Kyiv newspaper City.

From 1997 to 1998 - economic observer of the newspaper Kyivskie Vedomosti.

In January 1998, Yegor Sobolev was invited by Ukrainian economic journalist Mikhail Kolomiets to the Information Agency Ukrainian News. He worked as an economic correspondent, then as a chief correspondent. After the mysterious suicide of Kolomiets in Belarus in October 2002, he resigned.

Since December 2003, he was a political journalist-correspondent for the newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli and the magazine Korrespondent.

In the summer of 2004, he was elected head of the Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union. The union managed to initiate protests against censorship on central television channels, which were called the Journalistic Revolution.

During the presidential elections of 2004, at the request of the 5th channel, he covered the work of Viktor Yanukovych's headquarters as an independent journalist.

From January 2005 to February 1, 2008, he worked on the 5th channel. Initially, he was a special correspondent, then co-author of the program 'Hour: Important', and created the author's program 'Is it for five?'.

From January 2007, he became one of the two hosts of the TV program 'Hour'. On October 1, 2007, after discussing a record-sized land distribution by the Kyiv City Council led by Leonid Chernovetsky, Petro Poroshenko advised Sobolev to look for another job. In January 2008, the program was canceled and restored only after Sobolev resigned from the channel.

In March 2008, Yegor Sobolev headed the portal delo.ua of the Ekonomika publishing house during its reform.

On July 3, 2008, Sobolev was appointed by Polish managers as the chief editor of the TRK Novyny television group Ukraine, owned by System Capital Management, the Donetsk billionaire Rinat Akhmetov. He held this position for only two hours, and on the same day the management of TRK Ukraine terminated his contract without explanation.

In August 2008, Sobolev founded the 'Bureau of Journalistic Investigations 'Svidomo'. The bureau began to conduct investigations for local newspapers, focusing on problems in each city that could only be solved by the central government, particularly in the fields of education and healthcare. At the time of Viktor Yanukovych's arrival in March 2010, the bureau's investigations had been published by 52 newspapers. In addition to subscriptions, the bureau's activities were funded by grants from the International Renaissance Foundation and the U-Media project.

In 2011, Yegor Sobolev created the civic organization 'Civic Service 'Svidomo'.

Political Career.

In July 2013, Yegor Sobolev announced the end of his journalistic career and transition to politics.

During the Euromaidan, Sobolev was one of the activists. After the Euromaidan, by decision of the All-Ukrainian Union 'Maidan', on February 27, 2014, Sobolev was appointed head of the Lustration Committee of Ukraine, which, however, never received official status and operates as a civic organization.

In June 2014, together with Victoria Syumar and several civic activists, he created the party 'Vola' based on the civil movement.

In the fall of 2014, during the early elections, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the lists of the Samopomich Union (No. 13). He was the deputy head of the Samopomich parliamentary faction (Oleg Berzyuk). He headed the VR committee on prevention and combating corruption.

On December 7, 2017, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed the deputy from Samopomich, Yegor Sobolev, from the position of head of the parliamentary anti-corruption committee.

Family.

He is married to Ukrainian TV host Marychka Padalko. They have four children - three daughters and a son.

03.03.2022.