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Oleg Bakhmatiuk

entrepreneur, politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ12081278 ↗
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Oleg Bakhmatiuk (Ukrainian: Олег Бахматюк, born August 14, 1974) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, former billionaire. He is the owner of the agricultural vertically integrated company UkrLandFarming and one of the largest egg producers in both Europe and Asia.

Early life and education

In 1996, Bakhmatiuk graduated from the Chernivtsi Economics and Law Institute, where he specialized in management of the production sphere. In 2005, he graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, with specialist diplomas in management and engineering physics.

Career and business activity

Between 1996 and 2001, Oleg Bakhmatiuk served in various positions at KGD, representing the Itera company in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region.

In the 2002 Ukrainian local elections, he was elected Deputy of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council. There, he became a member of the Economic Revival Faction and the City Council Committee on finance planning, prices, and budget.

Between 2002 and 2004, Bakhmatiuk partnered with Ihor Yeremeyev in oil, agribusiness, and regional gasification ventures. In 2003, he founded Stanislavska Torgova Kompaniya (Stanislavskiy Trade Company), which grew to become the largest grocery store chain in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region under the brand “Favorit.” The company was sold in 2010 to pay debts to its competitor Pakko-Holding.

In 2004, Bakhmatiuk founded the commercial bank Financial Initiative.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Oleg Bakhmatiuk” as entrepreneur, politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1996, 2005, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-08-14. The account is most persuasive where Oleg, Bakhmatiuk and entrepreneur can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as entrepreneur, politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12081278. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1996, 2005 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oleg Bakhmatiuk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.