Oleksiy Chernyshov

Oleksiy Chernyshov
Олексій Чернишов
Official portrait, 2023
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine — Minister for National Unity of Ukraine
In office
3 December 2024 – 16 July 2025
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byIryna Vereshchuk
Succeeded byMinistry dissolved
Head of the Board of Naftogaz
In office
4 November 2022 – 3 December 2024
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byYuriy Vitrenko
Minister for Communities and Territories Development
In office
4 March 2020 – 3 November 2022
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byDenys Shmyhal
Governor of Kyiv Oblast
In office
28 October 2019 – 11 March 2020
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterOleksiy Honcharuk
Preceded byMykhailo Bno-Airiian
Succeeded byVasyl Volodin (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1977-09-04) 4 September 1977
PartyIndependent
EducationKharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy”
Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
OccupationEntrepreneur
politician
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Oleksiy Chernyshov (Ukrainian: Олексій Михайлович Чернишов; born 4 September 1977) is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who most recently served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine — Minister for National Unity of Ukraine from December 2024 to July 2025. In July 2025, his ministry was merged with the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine.

Chernyshov was CEO of the Naftogaz Group in 2022–2024, Minister for Communities and Territories Development in 2020–2022, and Kyiv Region Governor in 2019–2020.

He coordinated the decentralization reform, recognized by the European Union as one of the most successful reforms in Ukraine, as well as the reform of state regulation in construction. He also revived the corporate governance reform within the Naftogaz Group. He has over 20 years of experience in the private sector in Ukraine and abroad, specializing in finance, investments, investment banking, real estate, and IT.