Trukhanov appoints twice ex-deputy mayor of Pidhaine to head district administration

Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov has appointed his former deputy, Serhiy Pidhainyi, as the head of the city's Khadzhybey district administration.

The relevant order of the mayor was published by the press service of the municipality, according to the Center for Public Investigations.

Serhiy Pidhainyi took office on August 22, but the order on his appointment was published on August 26.

At the same time, Yevhen Omelchuk, who had previously headed the district administration, was transferred to the position of Serhiy Pidhainyi's first deputy.

Serhiy Pidhainyi was born in 1977 in Kaniv. He has a degree in heat and gas supply and ventilation.

Until 2005, he worked for Ruslan Tarpan. While Eduard Hurvits was the mayor of Odesa, Pidhainyi was close to Mykhailo Kuchuk.

From May 2005 to February 2009, he served as the head of the Roads Department of the Odesa City Council. In February 2009, Serhiy Pidhainyi was appointed head of the Prymorskyi District Administration of Odesa.

By the order of the Mayor of Odesa dated May 23, 2011, he was appointed to the position of the Head of the Road Facilities Department of the Odesa City Council (he was selected through a competition).

On February 29, 2012, the then Mayor Oleksiy Kostusev appointed him as his deputy, replacing the dismissed Oleksandr Orlov, but in June of that year, Serhiy Pidhainyi resigned from this position.

In 2014, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appointed Serhiy Pidhainyi to head the State Road Agency of Ukraine, a position he resigned from in 2015.

On February 25, 2020, Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov appointed Serhiy Pidhainyi as his deputy. In May 2020, he was appointed to serve as First Deputy Mayor. However, on July 22, 2020, he was dismissed from this position.

In February 2021, Serhiy Pidhainyi was appointed deputy to the head of the Odesa Regional State Administration, Serhiy Hrynevetskyi, and was dismissed in March 2022.

Кирило Бойко