Maxim Efimov
Ukrainian businessman and politician
Maxim Viktorovich Efimov (Ukrainian: Максим Вікторович Єфімов, romanized: Maksym Viktorovych Yefimov; born 1 November 1974) is a Ukrainian politician and former People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 48th electoral district from 2014 to December 2023. Formerly an independent and member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, and following this co-chair of Restoration of Ukraine alongside Igor Abramovych.
Early life and career
Maxim Viktorovich Efimov was born on 1 November 1974 in the city of Petropavlovsk in the northern Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Petropavl in Kazakhstan). He is a graduate of the University of Bern's Department of Business Administration, the Donetsk National University (specialising in economics) and the Donetsk National Technical University (with a degree in ferrous metallurgy).
Efimov began working in 1996, as general director of the Kramatorsk Metallurgical and Machine-Building Company. From 1997 to 1998, he worked at Kramatorsk Multi-Industry Marketing Company before moving to Kramatorsk Aeronautical School, where he remained for a year before moving to the EnerhoMashSpetsStal plant in Kramatorsk. In 2006 or 2007, Efimov was appointed as head of EnerhoMashSpetsStal.
Political career
Efimov was first elected to a political position in the 2006 Ukrainian local elections, being elected to the Kramatorsk City Council as a member of Party of Regions. He was subsequently re-elected in the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, before leaving the Party of Regions on 25 August 2014.
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Efimov was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 48th electoral district (located in Kramatorsk), campaigning as an independent.
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