| Serhiy Hrynevetskyi | |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Office: | 2nd and 14th Governor of Odesa Oblast |
| Termstart: | 27 November 2020 |
| Termend: | 1 March 2022 |
| Appointer: | Volodymyr Zelensky |
| Predecessor: | Vyacheslav Ovechkin (acting) Maksym Kutsyi |
| Successor: | Maksym Marchenko |
| Appointer1: | Leonid Kuchma |
| Termstart1: | 26 May 1998 |
| Termend1: | 3 February 2005 |
| Predecessor1: | Rouslan Bodelan |
| Successor1: | Vasyl Tsushko |
| Office2: | Chairman of the Odesa Oblast Council |
| Termstart2: | 8 February 2005 |
| Termend2: | 22 July 2005 |
| Predecessor2: | Volodymyr Novatskyi |
| Successor2: | Fedor Vlad |
| Termstart3: | 21 September 2000 |
| Termend3: | 19 April 2002 |
| Predecessor3: | Yuriy Kazakov |
| Successor3: | Volodymyr Novatskyi |
| Office4: | First Secretary of the Odesa Regional Young Communist League of Ukraine |
| Termstart4: | September 1986 |
| Termend4: | June 1990 |
| Office5: | Deputy of the Odesa Regional Council |
| Termstart5: | November 2020 |
| Office6: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
| Termend6: | 27 November 2014 |
| Termstart6: | 23 November 2007 |
| Birth Date: | 25 September 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Luzhanka, Tarutyne Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship: | Ukraine (1991-present) Soviet Union (1957-1991) |
| Nationality: | Ukrainian |
| Residence: | Odesa, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine |
| Education: | Odesa Technological Institute of the Refrigeration Industry, Ukrainian Order of the Red Banner of Labor Agricultural Academy |
| Otherparty: | Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) |
| Occupation: | Politician, mechanical engineer |
Serhiy Rafailovych Hrynevetsky (born 25 September 1957) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the Governor of Odesa Oblast, first from 1998 to 2005, and again from 27 November 2020 to 1 March 2022 following his appointment by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky dismissed him on the seventh day of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1]
Hrynevetsky was a member of the Verkhovna Rada in the 6th and 7th convocations.[2]
Serhiy Hrynevetsky was born on 25 September 1957 in Luzhanka, Tarutyne Raion, in Odesa Oblast, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union. Hrynevetsky graduated from the Odesa Technological Institute of Refrigeration on 26 June 1979. On 27 February 1985, Hrynevetsky graduated from the Ukrainian Order of the Red Banner of Labor Agricultural Academy. He was educated as a mechanical engineer.
He then worked as a technological engineer at the Rodzdilnianski district repair shop until 1980. The same year, he took the position as a senior engineer, which he would hold until 1989. From 1982 to 1984, Hrynevetsky the First Secretary of the Rozdilnianski district committee of the Leninist Communist League of the Youth of Ukraine of Odesa Oblast. From 1984 to 1986, he served as the Second Secretary as the LCLY of Ukraine.
From 1986 to 1990, he served as the First Secretary of the Odesa Regional Committee of the Young Communist League of Ukraine. From 1990 to 1991, he went back to Rozdilnianski district as the regional secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Odesa Oblast.
Hrynevetsky speaks both Ukrainian and Russian, the latter of which is his second language. He currently resides in Odesa.