Andrey Rostenko
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Andrey Olegovich Rostenko (Russian: Андрей Олегович Ростенко; born 6 April 1969 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan[1]) is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician who served as the de facto Mayor of Yalta, Crimea, from 2014 to 2017 following the Russian annexation of Crimea.[2] He is also the former Head of the Yalta Municipal Administration of the Republic of Crimea of the Yalta International Forum Foundation.[3]
Rostenko was born on 6 April 1969 in Tashkent, which was then part of the Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union.[4] In 1990, he graduated from the Simferopol Higher Military‑Political Construction School with a qualification for the military and as a teacher of history and social studies.[4] He then completed his serve in the Soviet Armed Forces.[4] Following this, he worked for nine years as a driver and forwarder at the private small enterprise "Sirius", before becoming general director and commercial director of the LLC "Firma 'Termodom'" from 2000 to 2014.[4] During this time, he graduated from V. I. Vernadsky Taurida National University with a specialty in international economics.[4] He also later graduated from the same university in 2016 with a master's degree in state and municipal administration, and in 2020 from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration with an additional master's degree in state and municipal administration.[4]