Supervisory Board

He has worked at the Zaporizhzhia Machine-Building Design Bureau ‘Progress’ (now the state-owned enterprise ‘Ivchenko-Progress’) for over 40 years: from 1992 to 1995 as a lead designer, 1995–2003 – Head of the Combustion Chambers Department (simultaneously 2001–2003 – Deputy Chief Designer), since 2003 – Chief Designer and First Deputy Director, since 2010 – Chief Designer and Head of the enterprise. He played an active role in the development and improvement of over 20 types and variants of aero and ground-based gas turbine engines, which are in operation in many countries around the world.

Igor Fedorovich Kravchenko led the development of the AI-222K-25 (AI-322) for the L-15A light trainer aircraft of the Chinese company ‘Hongdu’, and a programme of experimental and validation work on the creation of Ukraine’s first turbojet engine with an afterburner chamber, the AI-222-25F (AI-322F) for the L-15B supersonic light trainer aircraft.

Under his leadership, cutting-edge development projects are currently underway: the AI-322-30 turbofan engine, designed to increase the engine’s thrust characteristics whilst maintaining its dimensions; the AI-450M family of turboshaft engines for the Mi-2MSB and MSB-2 ‘Nadiya’ helicopters and turboprop variants – the AI-450S for the DA50-JP7 general aviation aircraft from the Austrian company ‘Diamond Aircraft’, AI-450T for the ‘Akinci’ UAV of the Turkish company ‘Baykar Makina’, AI-450SR for the DART-450 light tactical aircraft of ‘Diamond Aircraft’, as well as the AI-450SR-2 for the TA-20 light tactical aircraft of the Chinese company ‘Wuhu Zhongke Aircraft’; for helicopters in the up to 10-tonne class, such as the Mi-8MSB and MSB-8, a modification of the TV3-117VMA-SBM1V engine is being developed in collaboration with Motor Sich JSC; a new engine with improved performance – the AI-28 – is being designed for short-haul passenger and transport aircraft, such as the An-158 and An-178; a family of AI-305 turbojet engines is being developed for light multi-purpose aircraft and UAVs; a new variant of the D-18T engine is being developed for future modifications of the world-renowned An-124 ‘Ruslan’ and An-225 ‘Mriya’ transport aircraft: the D-18T Series 3M with improved acoustic and environmental performance; certification tests are being finalised for the D-436-148FM for the An-178 transport aircraft and the D-18T Series 3M for the An-124-100.

The AI-19GIG inert gas generator, developed with his involvement, offers unique capabilities across many sectors of the economy, including firefighting, and is in demand among both domestic and international customers.

In 2013, he was awarded the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers Prize for the development and implementation of innovative technologies.

In 2008, he was elected a full member of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine. Ihor Fedorovych Kravchenko is a member of the editorial boards of three scientific journals. In 2016, by a resolution of the Bureau of the Mechanics Division of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, he was appointed a member of the Scientific Council on the topic of ‘Mechanics of Deformed Solids’. Thanks to his efforts, in 2016 the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine included the state-owned enterprise ‘Ivchenko-Progress’ in the State Register of Scientific Institutions, and in 2017, a specialised academic council was established at the enterprise with the authority to accept for consideration and conduct the defence of theses for the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences in the speciality ‘Engines and Power Plants’, which he headed.

In 2021, Ihor Fedorovych Kravchenko was elected a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the field of ‘Applied Mechanics’.

Igor Fedorovich is the author of over 100 academic papers and articles, including 4 monographs, 72 copyright certificates and patents for inventions.

Ihor Fedorovych Kravchenko is a recipient of the Order of Merit (2000, 2003, 2011); he has been awarded orders, medals and certificates of honour, and in 2020 was awarded the title of ‘Honoured Mechanical Engineer of Ukraine’

He held the following positions: Head of the Zaporizhzhia-2 Track Section of the Prydniprovska Railway, Chief Engineer, Deputy Head of the Zaporizhzhia Division of the Prydniprovska Railway, and Head of the Zaporizhzhia Directorate of Rail Transport and Deputy Head of the Prydniprovska Railway. Head of the separate structural unit ‘Zaporizhzhia Children’s Railway’ of the state-owned enterprise ‘Dnipro Railway’.

Honoured Transport Worker of Ukraine. Member of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council.

Advisor to the Director General (2010–2012) of the state-owned enterprise ‘Zaporizhzhia Scientific and Production Centre for Standardisation, Metrology and Certification’ under the State Consumer Standards Service of Ukraine, since 2012 – First Deputy Director General of the state-owned enterprise ‘Zaporizhzhia Scientific and Production Centre for Standardisation, Metrology and Certification’ under the Ministry of Economy.

Honoured Transport Worker of Ukraine. Member of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council.

A graduate of the Zaporizhzhia Machine-Building Institute (1967–1972), specialising in ‘Design and Manufacture of Radio Equipment’; design engineer and radio equipment technician

She began her career that same year as a history teacher at Mariivska Secondary School in the Zaporizhzhia district. For eighteen years, she worked as a curriculum specialist at the Zaporizhzhia District Education Department. She also headed the district branch of the Trade Union there from 1994. In 2000, she was elected deputy chair of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Committee of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers. Since 2005, she has headed the Zaporizhzhia Regional Organisation of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine.

Nadiya Ivanivna is a member of the Presidium and the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine.

The most important aim of her work is to provide social, economic and legal protection for union members, and to foster unity and strengthen the organisation, for it is in unity that our strength lies. Thanks to her principled stance and diplomatic approach, the most complex issues facing the region’s educators are resolved in cooperation with the authorities.

A sincere commitment to fairness, high standards for herself and her colleagues, exceptional professionalism, boundless energy, integrity, and a willingness to offer help in word and deed – these are the qualities noted by everyone who works with her or interacts with her.

For her work, she has been awarded Certificates of Honour from the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Trade Union, and the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU), as well as the ‘Honoured Worker of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine’ badge of honour and the FPU’s ‘Trade Union Distinction’ badge. And for her spirituality and humanity, His Grace, the Bishop of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol, awarded Nadiya Ivanivna the Order of ‘Seraphim of Sarov’.

Awards:

2003 – Order of Merit, 3rd class;

2007 – the honorary title of ‘Honoured Mechanical Engineer of Ukraine’;

2010 – Certificate of Honour from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;

2012 – Order of Merit, 2nd class.

Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (1983). Doctor of Science in the field of public administration (2016). Academician of the Transport Academy of Ukraine (2001).

Honorary Citizen of Zaporizhzhia (24 September 2008). Full Knight of the Order of Merit (2000, 2002, 2009). In 2001, he was named Ukraine’s best regional leader.

A graduate of the Zaporizhzhia Machine-Building Institute (1964–1969), specialising in ‘Cars and Tractors’, qualification: mechanical engineer.

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In 1979, he graduated from the Kharkiv Guards Tank Command School with first-class honours.

In 2005, he was awarded the qualification of Metallurgy Specialist at the State Institute for Industrial Training and Retraining.

From 1979, he served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, in Dresden, and in the Far Eastern Military District in Zavitsynsk, in line units and in the operations section of a tank division headquarters.

After leaving the Armed Forces, he moved to Dnipropetrovsk and, in 1992, began his career as an apprentice at the Dnipropetrovsk-based ‘Chervonyi Profintern’ factory.

In 1993, he joined the design bureau ‘Privatbank’, where he served as head of security, deputy head of department, and head of the human resources department. While there, he underwent training with specialists from the United Kingdom, France and the United States in the areas of management, human resources management and team building.

In 1996, he left PrivatBank and joined the Ordzhonikidze Mining and Processing Plant, where he was involved in streamlining the operations of the manufacturing plant.

In 1997, he was appointed and subsequently elected Chairman of the Board at the “Margarets Mining and Processing Plant”. He oversaw the resumption of operations, and by 2002 the company had become one of the top-ranked enterprises in Ukraine.

Since 2002, he has been Chairman of the Board of JSC ‘Zaporizhzhia Ferroalloy Plant’.

Awards:

1. Medal ‘For Military Merit’

2. Medal ‘For Impeccable Service’, 2nd Class

3. Medal “For Impeccable Service”, 3rd Class

4. Order of Merit, 3rd Class

5. Order ‘For Services to the Zaporizhzhia Region’, 3rd Class

6. Honorary Award ‘For the Development of Social Partnership’

7. Medal ‘For Personal Contribution to the Development of the City of Zaporizhzhia’

8. Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Social Partnership’

9. Honorary Award ‘30 Years of Zaporizhnaftoprodukt’ (for long-standing support and contribution to the development of the system)

10. Commemorative Medal ‘For Merit’, 2nd Class

11. Medal ‘For the Development of the Zaporizhzhia Region’

12. ‘Honorary Citizen of Marganets’

13. The Medal “For Dignity and Patriotism”.

14. Order of Merit for the Zaporizhzhia Region, 2nd Class

15. Order of Merit, 1st Class

16. Order of St Michael the Archangel, 2nd Class

17. Honorary Order of Merit, 1st Class

18. The ‘Independent Ukraine’ Commemorative Order

Social and political activities:

2002–2006 — Member of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council (4th term).

2006–2010 — Member of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council (5th term).

2010–2014 – Member of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council (6th term) representing the ‘Ukraine of the Future’ political party. Member of the Standing Committee on Relations with Citizens’ Associations and the Media.

2016–2018 – Member of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council (7th term) representing the political party ‘Ukrainian Union of Patriots – UKROP’.

2016–2018 – Member of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council (7th term) representing the political party ‘Ukrainian Union of Patriots – UKROP’.

He is married and has two sons and a daughter.

In his spare time, Pavlo Oleksandrovych enjoys playing sport, with a particular fondness for tennis and football. Like any true gentleman, he enjoys active outdoor pursuits. He is interested in literature on psychology, management and business.

After graduating from the V.Y. Chubar Zaporizhzhia Machine-Building Institute, he spent 15 years working at the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Plant ‘Kommunar’ in engineering and management roles.

He has been at the helm of a foreign trade firm for 30 years.

European champion and world runner-up in veteran basketball.

Areas of scientific activity: methods for designing rotors, in particular cooling turbine blades; the design and refinement of turbine rotors for the D-36, -136, -18T, -27, DV-2 and AI-322/322F engines; development of the D-436-148 powerplant for the An-148 regional aircraft, as well as the D-436-148FM engine for the An-178 cargo aircraft; design and modernisation of aircraft engines for various types of aircraft. With Vyacheslav Mikhailovich’s direct involvement, automated design methods were introduced in the turbine department.

A graduate of the Zaporizhzhia Machine-Building Institute (1974).

European champion and world runner-up in veteran basketball.

He joined the Metinvest Group in 2007 and has since risen through the ranks from a production and sales planning expert to Production Director of the Operations Directorate. In this role, he focused on improving the operational efficiency of the Group’s mining and metallurgical enterprises. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at Promet Steel (Bulgaria), and from 2010 to 2019, he worked in the Operations Directorate of Metinvest Group. He was also a member of the supervisory boards of YEKHP (PrJSC Yenakiieve Coke Chemical Plant) and Promet Steel, and in 2017 he became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the latter company.

He began his career in 1976 at the Zaporizhzhia Titanium-Magnesium Plant, where he held various operational roles. From 1984 to 1989, he worked for the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, where he was responsible for industrial development.

In 1989, he was appointed director of the Zaporizhzhia Foreign Trade Service, a subsidiary of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

In 1995, he was elected President of the Zaporizhzhia Chamber of Commerce and Industry and has held this position ever since. During this period, the Zaporizhzhia Chamber of Commerce and Industry has successfully navigated significant stages of development and continues to work for the benefit of Zaporizhzhia’s business community, the region and the whole of Ukraine.

In 2009, he was elected chairman of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Organisation of the Union of Economists of Ukraine.

In his academic work, he focuses extensively on the globalisation of Ukrainian business, strengthening the export potential of regional industry, environmental issues and sustainable development, and public-private partnerships. He addresses these and other topics at congresses and forums, conferences, in publications by the Union of Economists of Ukraine, at meetings of the regional council’s economic development committee, and in media appearances.

Recognising the globalisation of economic activity and the challenges it presents, Volodymyr Shamilov places particular emphasis on developing the region’s trade and economic ties. Over 70 bilateral trade and economic cooperation agreements have been signed with foreign organisations and business support associations from Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.

A significant contribution to the development of the business infrastructure of the city and the region was the opening in 2009 of the Zaporizhzhia Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s ‘Kozak-Palats’ exhibition complex in Zaporizhzhia, with a total area of over 10,000 square metres.

More than 70 of the business services provided by the Chamber are certified in accordance with the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001.

In recognition of his many years of service and his responsible approach to his duties, Volodymyr Ivanovych Shamilov was awarded Certificates of Honour from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2004, 2017) and a Certificate of Honour from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2011). By Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 475/2009 of 23 June 2009, V.I. Shamilov was awarded the honorary title of ‘Honoured Economist of Ukraine’.