Andriy Sadovyi

Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi (Ukrainian: Андрій Іванович Садовий, Andríj Ivanovych Sadovýj) is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Lviv, the administrative center of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, former leader of the Self Reliance political party, and co-founder of "Lux" media holding. Sadovyi was a candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election from 8 January until 1 March 2019, when he decided to withdraw.

In 1987 he graduated from the Lviv Technical School of Radio Electronics. In 1987–1989 he served in the Air Force Liaison Regiment, which was responsible for communication with strategic aviation and was stationed in Moscow.

• He graduated from Lviv Polytechnic, obtaining the qualification of electronic engineering engineer in 1995,
• 1997 - qualification of economist in the specialty "Finance and Credit",
• 1999 - graduated from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, obtaining a master's degree in public administration.

• He began his career in 1989 as a regulator of electronic equipment of the production association "Lvivprilad".
• 1992-1995 - Deputy Director of the Lviv branch of the Fund for Social Adaptation of Youth under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
• 1993 - Sadovy with journalists Oleksandr Kryvenko and Ihor Kopystynsky founded the Lux radio station in Lviv.
• 1995-1998 - Member of the Supervisory Board of CJSC IC "Galician Investments", together with Alexander Yemets.
• 1997-2005 - Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Board of OJSC "Pivdenzakhidelektromerezhbud".
• Since 2005 - leader of the public association "Samopomich".
• 2002-2003 - Director of the NGO "Institute of Urban Development".
• 2002-2006 - Chairman of the Board of CJSC "Lux Television and Radio Company".
• In January 2006, he launched a new TV project - news channel "24".
• Before the start of the 2006 election campaign, he transferred all his media ownership to his wife.

In 1993, Sadovy, together with journalists Oleksandr Kryvenko and Ihor Kopystynsky, founded the Lux radio station in Lviv. Subsequently, the media holding TRK Lux was established on its basis. In 2002-2006 Sadovy was the chairman of its council.

In 2006, before the local elections, Sadovyi transferred ownership of the holding to his wife, Kateryna Kit-Sadova. The holding includes radio stations "Maximum", "Nostalgia" and "Lux FM", TV and website 24tv.ua, sites "Zaxid.net" and "Football 24".

• Mayor Sadovyi opens a concert on the holy street of Academician Bogomolets in Lviv, August 29, 2010
• Andriy Sadovyi has been involved in public activities since 1997. He is the founder and chairman of the board of the public organization "Institute of City Development", which was the publisher of the all-Ukrainian magazine "City"; founder of the municipal institution "Institute of the City", which deals with the development strategy of Lviv, chairman of the supervisory board of the Cultural and Artistic Foundation. Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky of the UGCC (2000-2002), a member of the Ukrainian-Polish Chapter of Reconciliation.
• From 1998 to 2002 he was a deputy and chairman of the economic policy commission of the Lviv City Council.
• In 2004 he initiated the creation of the public association "Samopomich".
• On March 26, 2006 he was elected mayor of Lviv.
• In April 2008, he proposed to restore Magdeburg law in Ukraine.
• On June 27, 2009, the congress of the Nasha Ukraina political party decided to expel Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi from the party's political council at his request.
• In 2010, Andriy Sadovyi was re-elected mayor of Lviv (nominated by the Republican Christian Party).
• In December 2012, he founded the Samopomich party, becoming its chairman.

On February 27, 2014, it was reported that Andriy Sadovyi had resigned from the post of Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk. He explained this by saying that he wanted to remain the mayor of Lviv. The next day, Andriy Sadovyi stated that the Samopomich party would run in the early parliamentary elections.

On March 25, 2014, Andriy Sadovyi stated that he was not going to run for president: “Today it is extremely important that everyone in the country does their job well. If everyone is running for president now, it will be a big trouble for the state, "the politician stressed. Sadovyi expressed his position on this issue in his blog on Ukrainian Pravda.

In the early parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014, the Samopomich party ran for the Verkhovna Rada for the first time.

On November 24, 2015, Andriy Sadovyi took the oath of office of the mayor of Lviv for the third time.

He supports Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, including director Oleg Sentsov.

According to a poll conducted by the Ukrainian Center for Public Opinion Research Sotsioinform on November 20-December 12, 2009, most Lviv residents praised Andriy Sadovy's work as Lviv's mayor. Lviv residents noticed positive changes in water and heat supply, street cleaning, garbage collection, city lighting, landscaping activities, road repairs, schools and kindergartens. The positive balance of evaluations of work in these areas, according to the Ukrainian Center for Public Opinion Research "Sotsioinform" ranged from 20.3 to 65.4%. Lviv residents estimated the mayor's activity in preparation for Euro 2012 at 12.5 points, the functioning of the LCP at 26.7 points, and the support of the poor at 23.9 points.

Since 2010, garbage sorting has been started and 715 covered and fenced container yards have been arranged, more than 47,000 square kilometers of tracks and 300,000 square meters have been repaired. m. sidewalks, reconstruction and lighting in Stryj and Lewandowski parks, parks named after Ivan Franko, "High Castle", "Nut Grove" and "Bondarivka".

As of the end of 2011, 57% of Lviv residents positively assessed Andriy Sadovy's activity, the second was Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn, a deputy from Svoboda of the Lviv City Council. As of the end of 2012, the number of those satisfied with A. Sadovy's activities increased to 60%. Two thirds of respondents said they like the way the mayor of Lviv solves economic problems, 12% said they are completely satisfied with his work, 48% - that they are more satisfied than not.

On October 25, 2015, Andriy Sadovyi was once again re-elected mayor of Lviv. During the election campaign, he made a total of 67 promises, the most important of which were to open a family medicine clinic in each district, to introduce municipal health insurance, to establish a waste sorting complex with a solid waste landfill, sludge fermentation stations and sewage treatment plants, and 30,000 workers. Lviv resident's card. As of October 25, 2016, Sadovyi was able to fulfill such promises as registering the company in 15 minutes and gaining access to a number of municipal data through a special portal, as well as the introduction of a Lviv resident's card. The first 10 cards were received by the participants of the anti-terrorist operation, Lviv implemented the project together with Oschadbank.

In 2015, the level of publicity of Mayor Sadovyi was 48%, while the executive bodies of the city council - 66%, deputies of the city council - 45%.

In March 2016, according to the site "Words and Deeds", during his tenure as mayor, Andriy Sadovyi made 305 promises and had a level of responsibility of 35%, 83 promises Sadovyi failed, another 102 were in the process of implementation. In particular, in the period for 2014-2015 Sadovyi promised to repair 11 Lviv streets, which was not fulfilled, and also did not fulfill the promise to repair the roof of the Pinzel Museum by the end of 2015, while Sadovyi managed to fulfill the promise and repair 5 streets since 2014, repair 5 streets and 6 objects of urban architecture are still in progress.

As of March 2016, 63% of Lviv residents were satisfied with the fact that Lviv is ruled by Andriy Sadovyi. in Lviv only 28% were satisfied, sidewalks - 34%, parking - 16%, public transport - 26%, medicine - 15%, schools - 43%, kindergartens - 27%, cultural institutions - 39%, sewerage - 32% , 64% of Lviv residents complained about corruption and 44% were convinced that Sadovyi was not doing enough to overcome the problem, 55% of citizens believed that local authorities were helping to attract investment in the local economy, 79% appreciated the mayor's efforts to improve image of the city, 66% responded well to actions aimed at improving public safety, 49% were satisfied with the condition of parks and squares and 56% were positive about garbage collection and 52% - lighting city streets, another 71% of Lviv residents were satisfied with water supply.

In November, Sadovyi managed to fulfill a promise he made in 2015 and launch a new tram route that connected the central part with the Sykhiv district. Also on October 17, 2016, a Center for the provision of services to combatants was opened in Lviv. During the opening ceremony, Mayor Sadovyi said that Lviv became the first city in Ukraine to adopt a program to help anti-terrorist operation fighters who have returned from the war, which includes housing for families who have lost breadwinners and orphans. within the region, or compensation of 100 thousand UAH. In addition, the Lviv City Council, at Sadovy's initiative, decided to allocate UAH 400 million in 2017-2020 for material assistance to anti-terrorist operation participants, including UAH 100,000 for each soldier; the city undertook to facilitate the allocation of land to ATO members outside the city, or to provide monetary compensation, as well as to provide housing for the families of war victims, the seriously wounded and orphans. The decision was made by 53 votes to 0.

At the end of 2016, A. Sadovyi had a record low score of 2.78 points, while in May of the same year the average score of Sadovyi's activity was a maximum of 3.47 points, in July it dropped to 2.99 points, in September he resumed growth - 3, 2 points, but then fell again. 9.1% of Lviv residents rated Gradov excellent, 17.2% rated the mayor's activity as four, 32.9% of Lviv residents rated the mayor's work as three, 19.8% of respondents rated his activity as 2 and 18.7% one point.

As of the beginning of 2016, A. Sadovyi would have taken third place in the event of early presidential elections with a rating of 12.4%, he also had the highest trust rating among Ukrainian politicians - 41%, while 40% were negative about him. But amid the garbage scandal among Lviv residents, his trust rating dropped from 70 to 39%. At the end of 2016, Sadovy's presidential rating fell to 4%.

In March 2019, a dormitory for orphans was opened. In addition to accommodation, you can get professional legal and psychological assistance.

On October 3, 2018, at a meeting with the organizers of the Molodvizh youth event, Sadovyi announced that he would not run for mayor again, but would run in the 2019 presidential election. On January 3, 2019, he officially ran for President.

Subsequently, Sadovyi announced the election program. The main points of the election campaign: the mobilization of youth, the rupture of the corruption guarantee in politics, technological modernization of the country.

Glukhov's mayor Michel Tereshchenko and the leader of the DemAlliance party Vasyl Hatsko, who joined Sadovy's team, expressed their support for Sadovyi.

During the campaign of the Presidential Elections of Ukraine in 2019, the facts of distribution of campaign materials on behalf of Andriy Sadovyi were recorded without initial data, which is a violation of the law.

On March 1, 2019, he withdrew his candidacy in favor of Anatoliy Hrytsenko.

He led the Self-Help electoral list in the 2019 parliamentary elections.

The incumbent mayor of Lviv, Sadovyi, won the November 22 election with almost 63% of the vote, while his opponent, Oleh Syniutka of the EU, won 37.2%. In the first round of the Lviv mayoral election on October 25, Sadovyi won 40%, while Syniutka won 31%. "European Solidarity" Petro Poroshenko, who received the largest faction in the Lviv City Council, proposed to choose his own candidate for secretary of the city council.

Sadovy's mother was a teacher, and his father was a supply engineer at the Lviv Bus Plant.

Sadovyi married in 2001 to art critic Kateryna Kit-Sadova (nee Kit). The couple is raising five sons - John Paul, Thaddeus Luke, Michael, Joseph and Anthony. The family lived in the prestigious New World district in a two-story three-room apartment in a new building on Rudnytskoho Street. In July 2013, Sadovy's family bought a new house on Streletska Street in Lviv with an area of ​​660 square meters. m., as reported by Andriy Sadovyi himself on his Facebook page.

On July 25, 2014, at about 11:30 p.m., unknown assailants fired at the house of Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi on Streletska Street from an RPG-18 anti-tank grenade launcher. After the July shelling, a 24-hour checkpoint of the State Security Service was established near the Sadovy's family home.

On December 26, 2014, at about 9:00 p.m., unknown individuals again fired at RPG-18 on the house of Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi on Streletska Street. No one was injured in the shelling. At the time of the shelling, Andriy Sadovyi and his family were at the Bukovel ski resort in the Carpathians. The house was badly damaged - windows and doors were broken, one wall was partially damaged. Sadovyi stated that he had not received any threats from the attackers during or during the first shelling of his house. After the previous shelling, the mayor spent 80,000 hryvnias to repair the house. At the same time, the mayor of Lviv stated that he did not intend to leave this house because he had nowhere to live. On January 14, 2015, law enforcement agencies set up an interdepartmental group to investigate the grenade attack on the house of Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi. The pre-trial investigation is being conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine in Lviv Oblast. The investigation is underway under Part 2 of Art. 258 (terrorist act).

On October 29, 2015, at about 10:50 p.m., a grenade was thrown into the yard of the house where Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi and his family live. The malefactor was detained by police officers guarding the mayor's house. At the time of the explosion, Sadovyi and members of his family were in the house. As a result of the explosion, no one was injured, the house was not destroyed. The grenade blast damaged an electrical cable. The detainee called himself a soldier of the 24th separate assault battalion "Aidar" of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Hzhyvinsky. Law enforcement officers confiscated TNT and 3 RGD hand grenades from the detainee. Andriy Sadovyi himself suggests that the malefactor has a psychological breakdown. Sadovyi also said that he had received threats, but refused to report the person who threatened him, citing the secrecy of the investigation.

Since the summer of 2016, the inability of the Sadovyi-led administration to solve problems with the storage and removal of garbage from the city of Lviv has led to a series of high-profile incidents due to unauthorized garbage dumping in several regions of Ukraine. For his part, Sadovyi complained that garbage collection in other cities was blocked, creating various protests. In September, he said that Lviv had been under a "garbage blockade" for 100 days. In March 2017, Prime Minister Groysman said that Sadovyi had all the necessary conditions to create a landfill and criticized that for 11 years as mayor Sadovyi could not solve this problem, and advised the mayor of Lviv to establish a network. ties with rural communities on the location of the landfill and waste processing complex and added that the development budget of Lviv in 1.8 billion UAH. is sufficient for these problems. On April 21, 2017, Sadovyi announced the signing of a memorandum to end the garbage blockade of Lviv under the guarantee of the government and the head of the regional state administration and added that 80% of the city is clean and 20% of sites are congested.

At the end of 2017, Bohdan Pankevych, a former deputy of the Lviv City Council, accused Sadovyi of failing to support the adoption of the resolution "On regulating the language of services in the field of services, trade and information about goods and services, advertising." Pankevych said that the decision was simply not included in the agenda of the session, “which happened at the Board of the Lviv City Council at the request of Mr. Sadovyi. A dozen "skinny" issues were included in the agenda "by voice", but the decision on the Ukrainian language was not. Because Mr. Sadovyi objected. This decision is chased by commissions and postponed since July. Nobody wants to say that he is against the Ukrainian language - that's why they find bureaucratic obstacles". The media holding Lux, owned by Sadovy's wife, has been accused by some activists of supporting Russification.

Blogger and representative of the international community "Ukrainian Community" in Lviv Yuriy Sytnyk, as well as part of the community of Lviv Andriy Sadovy's excellent business media career with cheating investors of Halytsky Investments CJSC, to which Mr. Andriy had relationship, and gaining control over a significant number of enterprises in the Lviv region. In particular, Yu. Sytnyk addressed an "open letter" to the well-known lustrator, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yegor Sobolev, with a proposal to conduct a popular lustration of his leader Andriy Sadovyi, indicating certain areas of necessary verification.

Igor Churkin, owner of the Lviv Bus Plant, notes that the mayor of Lviv owed the company 70 million hryvnias for 40 trolleybuses and buses and did not pay a single penny, which led to the plant's actual shutdown. Churkin notes that Andriy Sadovyi is a bad manager, but a good publicist.

Lviv political scientist Andriy Mishchenko accuses Sadovyi of not paying enough attention to preserving the historic buildings of Lviv and criticizes the reluctance to close Russian-language schools in the city. Yaromyr Smahalskyi, a former deputy of the Lviv City Council and a member of the City Council's Standing Committee on Finance and Budget Planning, claims that Sadovyi, paying much attention to cultural events, neglects the development of the city's infrastructure. Critics also accuse Sadovyi of populism, nepotism, and kleptocracy.

According to Galician political scientist Yuri Sitnik, the Lviv mayor is associated with Russian oligarch Mikhail Friedman, through whom he has access to the Russian establishment.

The property declaration of the candidate for People's Deputies of Ukraine Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi for 2013 states that he personally received 78,723.89 hryvnias of income; at the same time family members received 1 million 915 thousand 536.26 hryvnias of income. Of the vehicles in possession - Mercedes-Benz Viano (2012).

Andriy Sadovyi actually owns, but is formally registered with his wife, TRK Lux, which includes Lux FM radio (Lux FM Lviv also has a separate broadcast), Zaxid.net online newspaper, TV channel 24, Radio Maximum, Football 24 and Lux ​​Advertising Agency.

• "Visiting the Gardens" (2010)

• "Genius of the City" - the film won the Third National Competition for the best journalistic investigations into corruption in Ukraine. The film is about the activities of Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi and his entourage, which most of the film's characters openly call corrupt.

• "Portrait: Andriy Sadovyi" - A documentary about the mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovyi. Manufactured by NTA TV in 2006. Author - Stepan Hrytsiuk, cameraman - Oleg Vozniy.

• Release of the TV program "Secular Life" at home in Sadovykh (2014).

In early January 2014, the Russian newspaper Moskovskie Vedomosti used Sadovy's photo with his family in his article "Americans will no longer have Russian children" to show the "Russian family." Sadovyi reacted with humor, noting that his family are citizens of Ukraine. The publication later admitted its mistake and apologized to Sadovyi for "unethical use of photography."