27 Facts About Andriy Sadovyi

Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi is a Ukrainian politician and businessman who has served as the mayor of Lviv, the administrative centre of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, since 2006.

Andriy Sadovyi is the former leader of the Self Reliance political party, and co-founder of "Lux" media holding.

Andriy Sadovyi was born on 19 August 1968 in the city of Lviv.

Andriy Sadovyi graduated from the Lviv Technical School of Radioelectronics in 1987.

Andriy Sadovyi performed his military service from 1987 to 1989 in the Soviet Army.

Andriy Sadovyi graduated from Lviv Polytechnic in 1995 with a degree in electrical engineering, became qualified as an economist specializing in finance in 1997, and graduated from the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine with a master's degree in public administration in 1999.

In 1989, Andriy Sadovyi began working as an adjuster of radio-electronic devices at the Lvivprylad Manufacturers.

From 2002 to 2003 Andriy Sadovyi was a director of the Lviv Development Institute that publishes the Ukrainian-wide Misto journal.

On 26 March 2006, Andriy Sadovyi was elected the city mayor of Lviv.

Andriy Sadovyi was a member of Our Ukraine until 2010.

In October 2012, Andriy Sadovyi called for creating a new political party, Self Reliance, which was registered in late December 2012.

At 11:30pm on 25 July 2014 Andriy Sadovyi's house was hit by a high-explosive anti-tank warhead of an RPG-18.

The combatant who fired the RPG is unknown, and Andriy Sadovyi was not home at the time of the explosion, which damaged the roof, beams, and windows.

In November 2016, Andriy Sadovyi launched a new tram route that connected the central part of the city with the Sykhiv district.

In March 2017 Andriy Sadovyi announced the signing of a memorandum on the termination of Lviv's trash block.

Self Reliance announced on 3 October 2018 that Andriy Sadovyi was their candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.

Andriy Sadovyi was a candidate in the election from 8 January until 1 March 2019, when he decided to withdraw to support the candidacy of Anatoliy Hrytsenko.

Registration of Andriy Sadovyi's candidacy was officially cancelled on 5 March 2019.

In March 2019 Andriy Sadovyi stated that he would not take part in the next election of mayor of Lviv.

In December 2024, Andriy Sadovyi became the first Ukrainian mayor to visit Taiwan.

On his five-day visit to Taiwan, Andriy Sadovyi thanked the Taiwanese government for its new US$5 million donation to renovate a rehabilitation center in Lviv.

The media holding "Lux, " owned by Andriy Sadovyi's wife, has been accused by some activists of supporting russification.

In 2019, Andriy Sadovyi was accused of selling the city community's land to the investment company STR at an undervalued price for the construction of an industrial park in 2015.

In 2021, one of the scandals that affected Andriy Sadovyi's reputation was the international music festival Alfa Jazz Fest.

Andriy Sadovyi is married to Kateryna Kit-Sadova, and has five sons: Ivan, Tadey, Mykhailo, Yosyp and Anthony.

Andriy Sadovyi's wife owns large shares in various television and radio broadcasters.

Andriy Sadovyi is a founder and the head of a board of the social organization Lviv Development Institute, head of the Management Council of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptyts'kyi Art and Culture Fund of Greek Church of Ukraine, member of Ukrainian-Polish Cooperation Capital.