Kurovsky Ivan Ivanovich

Official biography

People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VII convocation Born on June 28, 1951 in the village. Skarzhnitsa, Khmelnitsky district, Vinnitsa region.

Education

Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute, 1973, civil engineer.

Career

1973 - 1979 - foreman, foreman, head of the SMU-2 section, Khimmetallurgstroy trust, Kalush. 1979 - 1985 - senior foreman SMU-35. 1985 - 1992 - chief engineer, trust “Brovarypromzhilstroy”. 1992 - 1993 - chief engineer, production director, collective enterprise “Macro”. 1993 - 1996 - General Director, LLC “Investment and construction company”, Kyiv. 1996 - 2005 - General Director, LLC “Zhitlo-bud”, Mr.. Kyiv. 2005 - 2006. - Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of Structural Mechanics of the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture. 2006 - 2007. - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 5th convocation. Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Budget. Member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc - Batkivshchyna faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Since 11.2007. - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 6th convocation. Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Budget.

A family

Married. There is a son and a daughter. Oleg Kurovsky - son of Ivan Kurovsky:

NOT official biography

In recent years, the face of Kyiv has been monstrously disfigured by ugly frame-panel-plastic new buildings growing out of the bald spots of the historical part of the city. And behind the monstrous towers of elite skyscrapers, you can no longer see the brilliance of the domes of St. Sophia Cathedral and the Lavra bell tower, which have been symbols of the city for centuries. But restless developers like Ivan Kurovsky, who have no control because of their limitless connections, not only spoil the appearance of the Ukrainian capital, but also pose a serious threat to the health and life of its inhabitants. Rating of fulfilled promises on the site “Word and Deed”:

Ivan Kurovsky. Building on the bones

The scandalous story around the attempts to build part of the territory of the Central Clinical Hospital in Kyiv (Aleksandrovskaya, formerly Oktyabrskaya) has been going on for almost 14 years, and resembles a prologue either to a horror movie or a disaster movie. It depends on what exactly the workers of Zhil-Stroy LLC (often referred to in the media as Zhitlo-Bud) can dig there if they continue to work at the site of the old burial site of the century before last: just old human bones, or still living spores anthrax and bacillus bubonic plague. Building on the bones: On July 10, 2003, the Kyiv City Council, under pressure from the then mayor of the capital, Alexander Omelchenko, decided to withdraw a plot of 0.45 hectares at 39-1a Shelkovichnaya from the use of the Central Clinical Hospital and transfer it to the city housing fund. And a year later, on July 7, 2004, this site was leased to Zhil-Stroy LLC for the implementation of the project of a 17-storey residential building. This was done in circumvention of all norms of the law, which prohibits the exclusion of sites from the territories of the protected zone of architectural monuments and the prohibition of any construction on them.. In addition, which also angered the people of Kiev, this territory was owned by the city community from the moment the hospital was built (in 1874), it was bought out by their great-grandfathers precisely so that no one could crowd out the first people's hospital in Kyiv. So since 2004, caring people of Kiev began to come out to protect this site from development, against whom they threw either the police or the “titushki”. The opinion of the inhabitants of Kyiv about the construction site: Protests intensified in 2007, when earthworks began on the site: a public committee was created, which included academician Vadim Berezovsky. The owner of the developer Ivan Kurovsky countered their demands with an unexpected statement that fraudsters were behind the protests, who allegedly wanted to get two whole floors of apartments in a future residential building “for free”. But at the beginning of 2008, the mayor Leonid Chernovetsky took the side of the protesters, ordering to stop construction and even almost depriving Zhil-Stroy of work permits in Kyiv. Building on the bones: However, such a touching concern of Chernovetsky was explained only by the fact that he lobbied for the interests of his own property developers (including the scandalous Elite Center). Then the crisis broke out, and in 2009 Yulia Tymoshenko decided to take revenge on Kurovsky “for betrayal”, initiating inspections, during which the construction of a house on this site (hillside) was recognized as dangerous due to the sliding of the soil. And in 2010, the Kyiv prosecutor's office achieved the recognition of the lease agreement for this site as invalid.. However, Zhil-Stroy went to court and got the opposite. Then the opponents of the development began to focus on the threat of an epidemic, since it is at the construction site that there may be an old burial place for those who died from the plague and anthrax. Kurovsky called these statements insinuations, and invited the commission of the sanitary and epidemiological station, which took several soil samples - and found nothing in them. Press conference of “Observer” on the topic of illegal development around the Alexander Hospital: [videopress 4lCnhVcX] Finally, in March 2013, the Supreme Administrative Court recognized the right to the plot behind Zhil-Stroy and allowed construction work to continue. And then Kurovsky unexpectedly announced that he would not continue construction. Moreover, in the same year, deputies Ivan Kurovsky and Oleg Lyashko registered a bill on a moratorium on the closure of hospitals, demonstrating their supposed concern for the health of Ukrainians.. But a few months pass, and the Zhil-Stroy company again continued to fuss in this area - that is, Kurovsky actually lied to the people of Kiev. As a result of this many years of tug-of-war, the site was actually alienated, fenced, a site was prepared on it, but no house was built, and the ownership rights to the ill-fated half a hectare hung in the air - no one can already determine whose they are by law. However, as Skelet.Info noted, recently they started drilling something again at the site, and this again alarmed the people of Kiev, who were seriously afraid of an infectious “hello” from the past. In the winter of 2017, at the “plague” construction site near the Alexander Hospital, something was drilled again

Alexander Kurovsky. Foreman-oligarch

Ivan Ivanovich Kurovsky was born on June 28, 1951 in the village of Skarzhnytsi, Khmelnitsky district, Vinnitsa region. Immediately after graduating from high school, he rushed to Kyiv and entered the Civil Engineering Institute. From 1973 to 1991, Kurovsky worked at Soviet industrial construction sites, started as a foreman and graduated as chief engineer: he built Hlovinil in Kalush, a powder metallurgy plant in Brovary, Prometheus in Borispol and Tochmash in Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky. But in the 90s, they stopped building factories in Ukraine, but the demand for good housing in Kyiv increased even more.. And Kurovsky in 1993 created Investment and Construction Company LLC, which became the basis for his future Zhil-Stroy. Well, there was no doubt about the talent of the builder Kurovsky, but two questions arose: where did he get the investments to create a construction company, and who patronized him in obtaining the first orders and plots? This page of Kurovsky’s biography is shrouded in the darkness of mystery, Skelet.Info has only assumptions: at that time, Alexander Omelchenko and the Surkis brothers “ruled” in the capital’s construction business, and it was impossible for a newcomer to pass by them. Considering the good relations between Kurovsky and Omelchenko during the mayorship of the latter (1996-2006), it can be assumed that it was San Sanych who helped Ivan Ivanych to rise. However, it is worth noting that most of Kurovsky's main projects in Kyiv began in 2003. The opinion of the people of Kiev about Kurovsky: Firstly, this is the aforementioned 17-storey building on the territory of the Alexander Hospital, which was never built.. Secondly, this is an elite house on Patorzhinsky, 14, in which Rinat Akhmetov's apartment and Viktor Yushchenko's office coexist well.. Thirdly, this is the most notable Kyiv “celebrity”: a 48-storey building on Klovsky Spusk 7-a, the highest (163 meters) residential building in Ukraine today, overshadowing the view of the Lavra. And these are the following projects: St.. Irininskaya, 5–7, contract No. 245/405 dated 01/30/2003 Per. Mikhailovsky, 22, 24/9, contract No. 245/405 of 01/30/2003 St.. Kruglouniversitetska, 3–5, contract No. 411/571 dated 24.04.2003 Street. Nekrasovskaya, 4, contract No. 638-17 / 798 dated 10.07.2003 Ul. Streetenskaya, 8, contract No. 638-8/798 of 10.07.2003 Street. Turgenevskaya, 28a–30a, contract No. 19/179 of 09/26/2002

Skyscraper on Klovsky Spusk

Separately, it is worth mentioning the building at 17-23 Oles Gonchar Street, where the construction of the Fresco Sofia residential complex began on a grand scale.. Moreover, not even Kurovsky's Zhil-Stroy was registered as a contractor, but his older company Investment and Construction Company. Kurovsky received a plot for construction in this historical district of Kyiv (in fact, on the territory of the Sofia Kyiv architectural reserve) from Omelchenko in July 2004. And public protests against the construction began in 2007, when a huge pit was dug there. The confrontation for this site was one of the most intense: first, aggressive “titushki” were sent to the outraged residents of the area, then a fake public meeting was held (which was attended by unknown criminals who intimidate people), who voted for the approval of the construction. But the protests continued for many more years.. And in March 2011, Serhiy Zubkov, a judge of the Shevchenkovsky District Court, was killed, who had previously made two decisions not in favor of Ivan Kurovsky: he rejected the right of the Investment Construction Company to build this site, and refused to collect compensation from the protesters in the amount of 560 thousand hryvnia for allegedly losses incurred by the developer as a result of blocking construction. Kurovsky about the anti-crisis law with the support of construction: [videopress YUIOtxH3] From an interview with Vitali Klitschko: In general, most of the projects (completed or unfinished) of Kurovsky, contracts for which were concluded in 2003, were subsequently protested either as containing gross violations of an engineering nature, or as illegal due to violations during land acquisition. And what did the people of Kiev who lived next to these construction sites have to endure!

Ivan Kurovsky: the plague developer of Kyiv

It seems that in the period 2002-2004. Kurovsky and Omelchenko “mutilated” some schemes - and given that literally in one year Zhil-Stroy took on a dozen large construction projects at once, these schemes involved colossal money! But whose - that is the question, the answer to which was carefully hidden by Kurovsky. It is only known that this money flowed through Zhil-Stroy Financial Company LLC, and was spent not only for its intended purpose: at the same time, Kurovsky invested in the agricultural and hotel business (AP Agroprogress, Karpatsky Capital LLC), purchased the Bobrovitsky bakery and the Business Meetings restaurant.

Kolkhoz named after Kurovsky

How exactly Ivan Kurovsky invested in Ukrainian agriculture is eloquently told by the scandalous story around Losinovka-AGRO LLC, which is a subsidiary of Kurovsky Agroprogress. So, a few years ago, in the village of Losinovka, Nizhyn district, Chernihiv region, an “investor” appeared - a representative of Agroprogress Kushnirenko, who began to tempt the villagers to lease their land shares to the company. But bad luck: since 2002, the villagers have already leased their land, as well as the property of the former state farm, to the enterprise from the Agrarian Academy of Sciences, and the village council itself did it for them. But generous promises and big promises did their job, and in May 2009 Losinovka had its own mini-Maidan, during which the villagers managed to terminate the contract with the Agrarian Academy and took their shares in order to hand them over to Losinovka- AGRO. “Losinovka-AGRO” subsidiary of “Agroprogress”. Data from opendatabot: In total, it was possible to attract 343 shares, which were formalized as deposits of the co-founders of Losinovka-AGRO, and 9% of the profit received from the land was paid for them in the form of “dividends”. However, a year passed, and payments dropped to 5%, and when the peasants began to ask questions, Kushnirenko showed them the decision of the “board of management” - they say, the economic situation is forcing this! The villagers working in Losinovka-AGRO were paid only 1,300 hryvnias per month. “Losinovka-AGRO”. Data from opendatabot: And that was just the start of the scam.. It soon became clear that Kushnirenko was manipulating the shareholder agreements (originals and copies), with land certificates, without informing the residents of Losinovka - who are actually shareholders. Then the forgery of documents began - and fake contracts appeared at the disposal of Kushnirenko on the transfer of Losinovka-ARGO to the free lease of the rich property of the former Losinovsky agricultural enterprise: five combines, five tractors with sowing complexes, a dozen trucks, a dairy farm with 450 cows, processing complexes and grain storage. That is, in fact, the naive villagers were simply robbed! And when they politely began to look for the truth, Kushnirenko sent them to sort things out with the Kyiv lawyers of Agroprogress - and they sculpted excuses. “It's a shame that Ivan Ivanovich sits in Kyiv and doesn't see what the local leaders are doing,” simple-minded Losinovtsy wrote in local newspapers, believing that Mr. Kurovsky is a good man, but he simply doesn't know about the outrages of his managers. Holy simplicity! Ivan Kurovsky was aware of the events, but he saw them in his own way. Just at that time, he was preparing Agroprogress for sale, and was interested in maximizing its value, including at the expense of leased and appropriated property. In 2012, Agroprogress, together with all subsidiaries, was re-registered to the Cypriot company Bluerace (Kurovsky), and only then it was sold to the Cypriot company Unigrain Holding, owned by dairy oligarch Alexander Petrov (Cheese Club, “Industrial Dairy Company”). It seems that the Losinov cows, for the milking of which the villagers were not paid a penny, really liked Petrov! And who knows how many more such fraudulent enterprises like Losinovka-ARGO were part of Kurovsky's Agroprogress!

Ivan Kurovsky. In search of a “roof”

With the advent of the mayor of Leonid Chernovetsky, the construction business of Kurovsky in Kyiv began to experience some difficulties, which resulted in a war between them in 2008, which forced Kurovsky to look for orders outside Kyiv. But fortunately for Kurovsky, in 2006 he was elected a people's deputy on the BYuT list (No. 65). And in the elections of 2007 he was also elected on the BYuT list and also at number 65! No, Ivan Ivanovich was not at all interested in politics, he simply bought himself a place on the electoral list, like many other oligarchs. And he had money: in 2007, Kurovsky's fortune was estimated at $175 million.. Within the walls of the Verkhovna Rada, Kurovsky had three concerns: to find protection from Chernovetsky, to find customers and financiers of his business, and with the onset of the 2008 crisis, to find budget allocations for his construction company, urging the state either not to leave developers in trouble, or to pity the people who contributed prepayment for apartments. However, already in 2009, Ivan Kurovsky began to communicate more and more often with colleagues from the Party of Regions, for which he was accused of betrayal by Yulia Tymoshenko, making her a vindictive enemy. And in 2010, Kurovsky joined the new coalition at all, for which he was expelled from the ranks of the BYuT as a “carcass” on February 1, 2011. But just from that moment, luck turned to face him, and he began to win most of the court cases - which allowed him to retain almost all the projects that had previously been protested by the prosecutor's office as violating laws. In the 2012 elections, Kurovsky did not buy himself a place on the list of the Party of Regions, but was elected from it in the 206th majoritarian district in Nizhyn - fooling gullible villagers with promises, including in Losinovka. In general, in his own PR, Ivan Kurovsky knows neither decency nor boundaries.. So, one day the residents of Nizhyn saw an announcement on their homes with the following content: Local journalists conducted a small investigation and found out that Deputy Kurovsky had nothing to do with the supply of hot water! The issue was resolved by the local authorities with the support of the Cabinet of Ministers, and Kurovsky generally found out about this after a positive decision was made, he was told something like this: Ivan Ivanovich, congratulate your voters, we are running hot water for them! And then Kurovsky hurried to instruct his assistants to print and paste these announcements around Nezhin. However, having staked on the Party of Regions, Kurovsky miscalculated somewhat.. He was later even reminded of voting for the “laws of January 16”, although he himself prudently left the PR faction even before the flight of Yanukovych and the collapse of the ruling coalition. But Kurovsky failed to repaint himself as a “patriot” and take part in the 2014 elections.. Nevertheless, already in 2015, he continued his vigorous construction activity in Kyiv, not only completing old projects, but also developing new ones.. They are the same scale and still the same scandalous! So, in February of this year, residents of Henri Barbusse Street applied to the capital's City Council for protection against Kurovsky. There “Zhil-Stroy” intends to erect a 25-storey residential building on the site of a kindergarten. This children's institution belonged to the Radar plant, and 110 children chirped merrily within its walls, but in 2015 the owners of Radar closed the kindergarten and sold it along with the land to Kurovsky's company. Residents of neighboring houses, of course, would like to see from their windows a renovated “garden”, which Kyiv lacks so much, and not to see the walls of the tower blocking the sun going up into the sky. According to information available to Skelet.Info, a public committee is already being created there, and with the start of construction work (first, the demolition of the former kindergarten), activists will block them.

Kiev residents ask the city authorities to ban the construction of a high-rise building on the site of a kindergarten

They want to build a high-rise of 25 floors on the site of kindergarten No. 84, along Henri Barbusse street, 28A. Local residents oppose the actions of the developer, the Zhitlo-Bud construction company, owned by Ivan Kurovsky, a former people's deputy from the Party of Regions. In particular, the activists appeal to the director of the Department of Urban Improvement and Conservation of the KSCA, Dmitry Belotserkovets, with a request to ban the construction of a multi-storey building. Recall that the garden, which is being prepared for demolition, belongs to the Kyiv plant “Radar”.

Income

It was a huge surprise for me when I saw myself in the list of hundreds of the richest people in Ukraine. I have an ambivalent attitude to this - it's nice to realize that I have achieved something in life, but at the same time, you need to understand that I have no money in my suitcases - they are all involved in business. Last year my annual income was 15 million. UAH. In general, I take money lightly, I do not strive to earn a huge fortune.. I love helping people. For example, in the Chernihiv region, the Zhytlo-Bud company leases 20,000 hectares, which is about ten villages. The company has invested about UAH 50 million in the development of infrastructure and the social sphere. And there is no benefit for us. We just understand that we cannot think only of ourselves.

Real estate

An apartment with an area of about 300 square meters, a house outside the city - 400 square meters. Mercedes Sedan and Range Rover Jeep. I like Breguet and Girard-Perregaux watches.

Conclusions:

Ivan Kurovsky acts solely in his own interests. He does not care about the threat of an epidemic during the excavation of an old burial ground, the main thing is to start construction, thanks to which money can be laundered. In addition, Kurovsky is called a political “carcass”, because he is moving from one gender. strength to another without much remorse.