Sergei Sadovoy: The Secret Life of the Goloseevsky Chief. Part 1
Following the appointment of Serhiy Sadovyi as acting head of the Holosiivska District State Administration, things are once again "happy" in this district of the capital. Sadovyi had previously headed it for many years, and then led the Department of Public Works, leaving behind far from the best of memories. But now he appears before Kyiv residents completely "cleansed" of old scandals, and even, just to be on the safe side, staged a sham divorce from his wife, transferring his business to her name.
His current official biography is not particularly remarkable, and for scandal hunters it is simply boring, just like his periodic interviews Various publications. You won't find a hint of any compromising facts about him in it—he's simply the perfect Ukrainian official! He lives on one salary (according to his declarations) in a modest apartment, and is a member of the public organizations "Anti-Corruption Union of Ukraine" and "Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine." Could it be that this man, who for many years led the Holosiivskyi district of the capital and then held the equally lucrative position of head of the Department of Urban Development, has maintained his pristine integrity and avoided becoming entangled in the corruption that surrounded him? No, it only seems that way, and now you will see for yourself the second, secret life of the head of the Holosiivskyi district, learning about the scandals he has hushed up and his hidden business...
Sergei Sadovoy in the army
An almost ideal official
Sergei Nikolaevich Sadovoy was born on October 1, 1963, in the village of Oktyabrskoye, Mensky District, Chernihiv Oblast. Unwilling to remain on his native collective farm, after eighth grade he enrolled in Chernihiv Vocational School No. 5, graduating in 1982. He then worked for another year in his new specialty as an assistant locomotive driver, earning, according to him, up to 300 rubles a month (a very good salary for the early 1980s). Only at the age of 20 did he enlist in the airborne troops, heading straight to Afghanistan. Many Kyiv residents know of his heroic Afghan past, as Sadovoy incorporated it into his image as an "honest civil servant" and even tried to leverage it into big-time politics.
He served in the 56th Airborne Assault Brigade, then stationed in the Gardez area. However, sometimes his comrades in the Afghanistan Veterans Party, in whose top five Sadovyi ran in the 2014 elections, for some reason they called this brigade a battalion, which is very strange for people who claim to be veterans.
Until 2014, Sadovyi was a member of the Ukrainian Union of Afghanistan Veterans, which split during the second Maidan: one part of the "Afghans" actively participated, another supported Yanukovych and the Anti-Maidan, and the leadership declared neutrality. Immediately after the victory of the "Revolution of Dignity," the "Afghans" who supported it broke away from the "cotton wool" Union of Veterans, creating the All-Ukrainian Association of Afghanistan Veterans, supported by the new government, headed by a controversial Crimean politician. Sergei KunitsynThe association immediately supported Petro Poroshenko in the presidential elections, and "Afghan officials" quickly defected to it, including Serhiy Sadovyi, who tried hard to prove his loyalty to the new government and avoid lustration (but in vain). The organization then accepted ATO veterans into its ranks and became known as the All-Ukrainian Association of Afghanistan and ATO Veterans. For five years, it was under the auspices of the post-Maidan regime, and now it has successfully sided with the "green" party: recently, Serhiy Kunitsyn became an advisor Head of the Presidential Administration, Andriy Yermak. Thus, Sadovyi now has his own man in the presidential administration…
Sadovyi's path to the heights of power was far from thorny. After the army, he worked as a machinist's assistant before heading to Kyiv, where he enrolled in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, majoring in law. He may not have gotten in on his first try, as his biography indicates that in 1986-87 he worked as a mechanic at the Paton plant, and only began his studies in 1987. Svetlana Koryukovets, a friend of his from school and a resident of a neighboring village, also went to Kyiv with him. She had enrolled in the Kyiv Medical Institute (now the Bogomolets National Medical University). They married there: in 1992, Sadovyi had a son, Alexei, and in 1997, a second son, Alexei. They were a very close-knit family, which Sadovyi boasted about in interviews, so what happened next surprised many. What happened was this: one day, Sergei Sadovoy quietly got divorced—something that only became known from his declaration, in which Svetlana was no longer a member of his family, but a stranger...
After graduating from college, Sergei Sadovyi found a job as a legal consultant in the legal department of the Moscow District Administration (RDA) in Kyiv. "It was a placement," he says.
It's worth noting, however, that Sadovyi's career was quite meteoric. Already in 1993, he became head of his legal department, and in 1998, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Moscow District State Administration. When the Holosiivsky District was created from the Moscow District in 2001, Sadovyi retained his position in the Holosiivsky District State Administration and became its head in 2006, simultaneously serving as chairman of the Holosiivsky District Council. Rumor has it that Sadovyi owed this promotion to Batkivshchyna, whose district organization he headed at the time—incidentally, being the only BYuT member among all the district leaders in Kyiv. It's surprising that Tymoshenko placed such a valuable figure on the BYuT electoral list for 2007. as high as 273rd place! However, other sources Skelet.Org They claimed that Sadovoy owed his rise not to Yulia Vladimirovna at all...
In June 2009, the head of the District State Administration, Sergei Sadovyi attended the funeral Vladimir Kisel, a crime boss who died in a traffic accident, stood slightly to the side, keeping his distance from the crowd of gangsters and semi-criminal businessmen who had come to honor "Ded." However, rumors still swirled that Sadovoy was a puppet of Vladimir Kisel, who had been the true master of the district since the 90s. It was even rumored that they had known each other since the late 80s, and that Kisel had placed Sadovoy as his man in the district administration and then helped him become its head.
Vladimir Kisel
But there's no confirmation of these rumors, and the official explained his presence at the "authority boss's" funeral simply: Vladimir Kisel was a member of the Goloseevsky District Council. Nevertheless, Kisel's organized crime group had been active in the Moskovsky/Goloseevsky District for many years (see summary). Even if Sergei Sadovoy didn't directly cover for it, it's impossible to claim his complete innocence. After all, as deputy head and then head of the district, he was, at a minimum, involved in Kisel's legalized business. And, of course, Sadovoy was aware of the "authority boss's" shady dealings.
In December 2010, a couple of weeks after Leonid Chernovetsky After being removed from his post as head of the Kyiv City State Administration (but still the elected mayor), Serhiy Sadovyi abruptly left his Holosiivskyi district. He moved to the capital's administration to become head of the Main Directorate for Control over City Improvement (later the Department of City Improvement and Environmental Preservation).
He was remembered for his large-scale war with small architectural forms, cutting down chestnut trees on Khreshchatyk and the construction in Goloseevsky Park, as well as the installation of the "bloody Christmas tree" on the Maidan in December 2013, which was later remembered for a long time.
Sergey Sadovoy (right) closes the small architectural form.
Sergey Sadovoy. Fall and Rise
Despite Sergei Sadovyi's efforts to please the new government, his career temporarily collapsed after the Maidan, when he lost his lucrative position as head of the Department of Urban Development. In 2014, he was replaced by Dmitry Belotserkovets, a Maidan activist from Sevastopol who had fled before the annexation of Crimea. However, Sadovyi's biography is strangely silent about his dismissal—apparently he didn't want to mention it to avoid any further inquiries about the reasons.
However, this was no secret to Kyiv residents: Sadovyi had made too many enemies in the war for capital real estate, in which he, like other Kyiv officials, defended the interests of developers and store owners—himself one of them. Moreover, according to several sources Skelet.OrgDuring his time as head of the Department of Urban Development, Sadovyi carried out the same schemes as his “successor,” Belotserkovets (in 2016, he became a people’s deputy from the BPP).
Dmitry Belotserkovets and Ivan Klipa
Let us recall that the fugitive “Crimean Maidan activists” Belotserkovets and his friend Ivan Klipa (appointed director of the Kyivblagoustry municipal enterprise) settled in Kyiv. created a real criminal syndicate, aimed at the large-scale demolition of small architectural forms commissioned by major Moscow developers. Belotserkovets and Klipa themselves "profited" from the demolitions through the help of puppet firms that plundered the capital's budget. But they had another difference: while under Sadovyi, the closure and dismantling of small architectural forms was guarded by the police, Klipa enlisted groups of "titushki" (illegal fighters) from among the so-called "activists" and "ATO veterans," who staged pogroms in markets and looted the stalls being demolished.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Org
CONTINUED: Sergei Sadovoy: The Secret Life of the Goloseevsky Chief. Part 2
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