Oleksiy Kostusyev

Oleksiy Oleksiiovych Kostusyev (; June 29, 1954) is a Ukrainian politician and former mayor of Odesa. Kostusyev is the father of fellow Ukrainian politician Oleksiy Honcharenko Kostusyev divorced Oleksiy's mother when Oleksiy was three years old. Kostusyev previously served as the head of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine, the nation's premier competition regulator. Family Father Oleksiy Oleksiyovych (1928–1983) — Captain of the 1st rank, sailor-border guard; mother Violla Alekseevna (1932) — a doctor. Wife Irina Vasylivna (1965) — engineer; son Goncharenko Oleksiy Oleksiyovych — Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VIII and IX convocations; daughter Viola (born 1988) is a student. Education In 1971-1975 he studied at the Odesa Institute of National Economy, majoring in economics. In 2004 he defended his doctoral dissertation on Methodological principles of forming an effective competitive environment in the economy of Ukraine (Odesa State University of Economics).