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Oleksii Bilyi

Ukrainian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ4083038 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oleksii Petrovych Bilyi (Ukrainian: Білий Олексій Петрович; born 1 May 1961) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician. Hwas a Head of the Mariupol Iron & Steel Works (until 2006). He is a member of the Ukrainian parliament (since November 2007), and a member of the Economic Policy Committee (since December 2007).

Biography

Bilyi was born on 1 May 1961 in the village of Kamyanka, Apostolove Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Family: wife Irina (b. 1971) a teacher at Donetsk National University; two sons, Oleksandr (b. 1998) and Arseniy (b. 2003), daughter Amelia (b.2003).

Education

Bilyi attended Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (1988) with a major in "Chemical technology of fuel," and Donetsk National University (2001), majoring in Business Economics. From 1979 to 1981 he served in the Soviet Army.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Oleksii Bilyi” as ukrainian 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—1961, 2006, 2007, 1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-05-01. The account is most persuasive where Oleksii, Bilyi and Ukrainian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as ukrainian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4083038. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 2006, 2007 and 1971.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Oleksii Bilyi” 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.