Valerii Kondratiev
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28 August 1970
Valerii Kondratiev | |
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Валерій Валерійович Кондратьєв | |
| Born | Valerii Valeriiovych Kondratiev 28 August 1970 |
| Other names | Gastello |
| Citizenship | Ukraine |
| Occupations | crime boss, sports executive |
Valerii Valeriiovych Kondratiev (Ukrainian: Валерій Валерійович Кондратьєв; born 28 August 1970, Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukrainian public person[1] and sports executive. He is the president of BC Dnipro, the head of the Basketball Federation of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and a former vice-president of the Basketball Federation of Ukraine.[2]
Valerii Kondratiev was born on 28 August 1970 in Dnipro.
The era of Gorbachev's "Perestroika" — the late 80s — became for Kondratiev a kind of start in career. And at the same time he came to the attention of the police. In the late 80s, the police of the central Dnipro market "Ozerka" recorded a group of young sportsmen who were cheating with the help of the then popular game "Thimbles". The head of the group was Oleksandr Petrovskyi, nicknamed Narik.[1]
The group of thimbles, in addition to Valerii Kondratiev nicknamed Gastello, according to police reports, included young judokas and boxers — Dato Suladze (nicknamed Dato), Sasha Yevtushenko, Oleh Panasenko, Roma Shovkoplyas (Roma Lugansky), Bohdan Gulyamov (Bodia), Valera Gulyaev (Slon), Serhiy Oliynyk (Umka), Sasha Lisovenko, Sasha Kavdax (Shtrek) and Albert Koleskor (Durdyonok).[1]
Many of the former young "fighters", including Valerii Kondratiev, became businessmen, philanthropists, and partners of Oleksandr Petrovskyi in commercial activities decades later.[3]
Valerii Kondratiev is the president of the BC Dnipro, the head of the Basketball Federation of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and was also the vice president of the Basketball Federation of Ukraine.[2]
In 2019, he was named one of the top 30 most influential people in Dnipro by The New Voice of Ukraine.[4]