Serhiy Taruta

Serhii Taruta
Сергій Тарута
Taruta in 2022
Governor of Donetsk Oblast
In office
2 March  10 October 2014
Preceded byAndriy Shyshatskiy
Succeeded byOleksandr Kikhtenko
People's Deputy of Ukraine
9th convocation
Assumed office
29 August 2019
8th convocation
In office
27 November 2014  29 August 2019
Personal details
Born
Serhii Olexiiovych Taruta

(1955-07-22) 22 July 1955
Vynohradne, Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
CitizenshipUkrainian
Political partyBatkivshchyna
EducationDonetsk State University of Management

Serhii Olexiiovych Taruta (Ukrainian: Сергій Олексійович Тарута; born 22 July 1955) is a Ukrainian politician and current member of the Ukrainian parliament, Ukrainian businessman, sometimes called an oligarch, founder of Industrial Union of Donbas, former President of FC Metalurh Donetsk, and the former governor of Donetsk Oblast.