Mykola Kalashnyk

Mykola Kalashnyk
Микола Калашник
Kalashnyk in 2024
Minister of Infrastructure
Assumed office
16 July 2026
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Preceded byOleksiy Kuleba (as Minister of Communities and Territories)
Governor of Kyiv Oblast
In office
24 March 2025 – 16 July 2026
(Acting from 1 January 2025)
Preceded byRuslan Kravchenko
Personal details
BornMykola Volodymyrovych Kalashnyk
(1990-05-22) 22 May 1990
EducationKyiv National University of Trade and Economics (2013)
National Academy for Public Administration (2018)
Occupationpolitician, administrator

Mykola Volodymyrovych Kalashnyk (Ukrainian: Микола Володимирович Калашник; born 22 May 1990) is a Ukrainian politician who currently serves as Minister of Infrastructure. He was previously Head of the Regional State Administration (Governor) of Kyiv Oblast.[1][2][3]

Biography

Kalashnyk was born on 22 May 1990 in Kyiv.[3] In 2013 he graduated from Kyiv National Economic University with a degree in "Foreign Economic Activity Management", with a qualification of Master of Science in Foreign Economic Activity Management.[2][3] In 2018 Kalashnyk graduated from the National Academy for Public Administration with a degree in "Regional Administration", with a qualification of Master of Public Administration.[2]

From 2011 to 2012 Kalashnyk worked as a customs broker at VENT-SERVICE LLC.[2]

In 2012 he started his career as civil servant in the Darnytskyi District of Kyiv in the municipal enterprise "Directorate for Management and Maintenance of Non-Residential Fund of the Darnytskyi District of Kyiv".[2]

From 2013 to 2017 Kalashnyk was the head of the department for communal property and privatization of the state housing fund of the Darnytskyi District State Administration of Kyiv.[2]

From 2017 to 2020 he was head of the Darnytskyi District State Administration staff.[2]

The following four years Kalashnyk was first deputy head of the Darnytskyi District State Administration and temporarily acting head of the Darnytsia District State Administration.[2]

When Ruslan Kravchenko was dismissed as Governor of Kyiv Oblast on 30 December 2024[4] Kalashnyk was appointed as temporary acting Governor (head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration) on 1 January 2025.[3]

On 24 March 2025 was appointed as the Head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration (Governor) by a decree of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.[1][3]

On 16 July 2026 Kalashnyk was appointed Minsiter of Infrastucture as part of the Koretskyi Government.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Zelenskyy appoints Kalashnyk as head of Kyiv Regional State Administration". Ukrainian News Agency. 24 March 2025. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Cabinet approves Zelenskyy's appointment of Kalashnyk as head of Kyiv Regional State Administration". Ukrainian News Agency. 11 March 2025. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Kalashnik Mykola Volodymyrovych (biography)". LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 24 March 2025. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  4. ↑ "President dismisses heads of Kyiv, Poltava regional administrations – Kravchenko and Pronin". Interfax-Ukraine. 30 December 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  5. ↑ "Рада затвердила новий склад уряду без очільників Міноборони та МЗС. Ось хто у списку (ДОПОВНЕНО)". Hromadske. 16 July 2026. Retrieved 23 July 2026.