Andrey Alexeyeenko

Andrey Anatolievich Alekseyenko (; born 23 April 1978) is a Russian politician and economist who served as mayor of Krasnodar from 2021 to 2022. Since 2022, he has been appointed by the Russian government to multiple high positions in the administrations of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory. From August 19 to early September 2022, he served as the head of government of the Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast. After that administration largely collapsed due to the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive, he has served as prime minister of Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast. Early life Alekseyenko is from Kuban. He studied engineering and economics at Kuban State Agrarian University in Krasnodar, and later obtained a degree of Candidate of Sciences in economics. Starting in 1996, he worked in a construction company, rising from being a foreman to the position of technical supervision engineer. He became the director of the volleyball federation of Krasnodar Krai. Political career