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Gennadiy Bogolyubov

Gennadiy Bogolyubov is a Ukrainian-born businessman and banker who co-founded PrivatBank and controlled Privat Group with Ihor Kolomoyskyi.

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Born: 20 January 1962, Kamyanske
Occupation: entrepreneur, banker, businessperson
Education: Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Founded: Menorah center (2012), PrivatBank (1992)

Gennadiy Bogolyubov was born in 1962 in Kamyanske

Bogolyubov was born on 20 January 1962 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, now Kamyanske, to a Jewish family far from tradition. He studied at the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Engineering and Construction.

After perestroika he went into business. In 1990 he and his friend Igor Kolomoisky started a company selling computer technology. Together they built Privat Group and founded PrivatBank, with interests in metals, oil, ferroalloys, petrochemicals and finance.

In 2010 he was ranked the third richest person in Ukraine. In 2016 the Ukrainian government nationalized PrivatBank after suspicions of a large embezzlement, and in 2019 it filed a $2.1 billion lawsuit against him and Kolomoisky in Tel Aviv. In 2025 Ukraine imposed sanctions on him, and prosecutors opened criminal investigations.

He returned to Judaism in midlife and set up the Bogolyubov Foundation. He funded prayer halls near the Western Wall and the Menorah Center in Dnipropetrovsk, where he was president of the Jewish community. He has six children and separated from his wife in 2023.