Grigori Schwark

Date of Birth: 20.07.1957

Place of Birth. Education. Born in the city of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region. In 1981, he graduated from the Skovoroda Kharkiv State Pedagogical University.

Career. Since 1981, he worked as a software engineer at the Ukrainian state project institute ITWE-Projekt. He actively participated in scientific activities in the field of development of new information technologies in design (CAD), author of 16 printed works.

In 1990, Grigori Schwark was elected as a deputy of the Dzerzhynsk District Council in Kharkiv and was the chairman of the permanent deputy committee on transparency, mass media, non-profit organizations, and sociological research. He served as a deputy of the Dzerzhynsk District Council for two terms.

Since 1995, he was a co-owner and head of the legal and consulting companies Inform-Business, Inform-Business-Audit.

From 1996 to 1999, Grigori Schwark served as vice-president of AGSMMC Telenedelia. Together with Boris Lozhkin, he was responsible for the regional development of the Telenedelia newspaper.

In the early 2000s, together with Lozhkin, he founded the Ukrainian Media Holding (UMH group).

From 2001 to 2013, Grigori Schwark was the first vice-president of the Ukrainian Media Holding.

In 2002, Grigori Schwark was involved in signing a contract with the Lagardere Group (France) for the launch of the radio station Europe Plus in Ukraine (in partnership with Gennadiy Bogolyubov).

2003-2006 - was involved in the launch of the magazines Telenedelia and Football in Russia, as well as a number of other media projects, including the football website Football.ua.

2011-2012, Grigori Schwark was responsible for the legal support of the contract between UMH group and Forbes Media Company (USA), which granted the right to publish Forbes magazine in Ukraine, the merger of online assets with KP Media (controlled by Petro Poroshenko) and the Media Group of Ukraine (Rinat Akhmetov) into United Online Ventures Company and signing a strategic partnership agreement with Conde Nast publishing house (USA).

After the sale of 98% of UMH group's shares to the VETEK Group in 2013, Grigori Schwark left the company.

For his professional activities, he was a member of the board of the Ukrainian Association of Periodical Publishers, representative of the Ukrainian Association of Periodical Publishers in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

On June 7, 2014, Grigori Schwark was appointed deputy chairman of the National Council of Ukraine for Television and Radio Broadcasting by a decree of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

From September 17, 2015, to August 29, 2019, he was a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation. Schwark entered the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the party list of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko after the early termination of mandates of deputies from the eponymous faction in parliament, Mykhailo Hvozdev and Roman Nazarov.

Family. Married. Raises three children.

Hobbies. Interested in sports, has sports awards in football, shooting, and chess.

19.07.2022