13 March 2025

Mykola Rizak's 2024 Earnings: ₴1.2M Despite Occupation in Tavriysk

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Last year, Mykola Rizak , the mayor of occupied Tavriysk on the left bank of the Dnipro River, received a salary as the head of the city's military administration, a pension, and IDP payments.

According to the Center for Public Investigations, this became known from his financial statements for 2024.

According to the official's declaration, he owns a house, an apartment, and a land plot (which are under occupation). His wife Aza also owns real estate. She owns a shop and a land plot (under occupation).

Tavriysk is a city in Ukraine, the center of the Tavriysk city community of the Kakhovka district of the Kherson region. It is located on the left bank of the Dnipro River, 80 km from the regional center. Since February 24, 2022, it has been under Russian occupation.

The Rizak family owns only one vehicle, a 1997 Volkswagen Transporter, which belongs to the mayor of Tavriysk.

The family has no savings. However, last year, the two of them earned 1.2 million hryvnias in income. Of this, the salary of the head of the MBA amounted to one million hryvnias, and Mykola Rizak's pension and another 44 thousand hryvnias in social benefits. The official's wife received 68.4 thousand hryvnias in pension and 24 thousand hryvnias in social benefits.

Last year, Mykhailo Lynetskyi, head of the Kherson District State Administration, received more than a million hryvnias in salary, a thousand in winter support and IDP payments. And the former deputy head of the Kherson city military administration Mykola Yakovlev received 1.3 million hryvnias in salary and payments from the state as an IDP last year . At the same time, the official did not indicate the income of his wife.

The head of the Oleshky City Military Administration in Kherson Oblast , Tetiana Hasanenko, reported in her declaration that she bought a car three times cheaper than the market price last year. And Natalia Chekhuta, the first deputy head of the Kherson MVA, bought a private house in Vinnytsia region.

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