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Dec. 12, 2025, 11:01 a.m.
Former head of district administration from Odesa Pidhainyi heads the capital's department
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PHOTO: Facebook/Serhiy Pidhainyi
The former head of Odesa's Khadzhybey district administration, Serhiy Pidhainyi, who was appointed to the post on June 26 and resigned a week later at his own request, has taken up the position of director of the Department of Transport Infrastructure of the Kyiv City Administration.
According to the Center for Public Investigations, this became known from his declaration of significant changes in property status, which was published by the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption.
In particular, the official indicated that he sold movable property for UAH 1 million 841.4 thousand. In the declaration before his dismissal, the official stated that in September 2025 he became the owner of an Audi A5 sportback made in 2023 and did not own any other cars.
The official also owns an apartment in Odesa with an area of 40.4 square meters, and he used another apartment with an area of 132.5 square meters in Odesa. Before his dismissal from the district administration, Serhiy Pidhainyi also declared savings of 25 thousand dollars and 430 thousand hryvnias in cash. And another UAH 1 million 101.6 thousand in bank accounts.
Who he is
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.
