The Poltava Regional Council in 2025 will continue the practice of allocation of budget funds in support of private sports clubs. This funding is carried out within the framework of the program "General support of physical culture and sports" , reports the local edition "Poltava region" .
On February 12, the 38th session of the Poltava Regional Council took place. The chairman of Alexander Bilenky described its results on his Facebook page: “Today… a separate solution was amended to the regional program of development of physical culture and sports for 2025 - 2028. In particular, the financing of measures for the municipal institution of the regional council "Sports Center of Poltava region" has increased. If the previous version contained the figure of 9 million 315 thousand UAH, then after the vote it amounted to UAH 22 million. The increase occurred by 12 million 685 thousand UAH.
The purpose of the work "Sports Center", which was founded in 2021, is allegedly "the development of sports in the Poltava region, involvement of the population in winter sports and promotion of healthy lifestyles." The head of this municipal institution is Taras Zakharchenko, he is also the CEO of the Kremenchuk Hockey Club. The president of the club and the profile national federation is Sergey Mazur - entrepreneur and deputy of the Poltava Regional Council, elected from the PPZZ .
How much did the support of this municipal establishment cost for the regional budget?
According to the data of the Public Finance portal, the E-Data, from August 2021 to January 2025, the costs of various services and goods amounted to 62 million 464 thousand 416 UAH. Of these, 40 million 331 thousand 453 - during a full -scale invasion. 13 million 746 thousand UAH is expenses during 2024.
What exactly are these funds spent? In 2023, Poltava region tried to understand the articles of expenditures of the Sports Center. It turned out that the largest expenses of the "sports center" is a hockey (work of the private hockey arena "Iceberg" and HC "Kremenchuk"), volleyball (in particular, VC "Reshetilovka") and salaries for employees. If you remember other sports, it is basketball and BC Poltava.
“Then we made the following conclusions about the motives of existence and financing of the Sport Center:
- The leadership of the region requires the votes of the deputies from the "OPZZh", one of which is Sergey Mazur;
- The second most important direction is the financing of the private volleyball club "Reshetilovka". This is one of the favorite projects of the head of the regional council Alexander Bilenky, who initiated its creation in 2019.
The full -scale invasion did not affect this logic, so we believe that these factors are the main in the budget of the "Sports Center" this year. Of course, we do not reject the importance of supporting the sports and physical education in general. Rhetorical questions arise except in the moment of budget financing of private sports clubs, ” - writes Poltava region.
We emphasize: VC "Reshetilovka" is legally a public organization founded by three individuals. And is a private project of the chairman of the Poltava Regional Council Alexander Bilenky.
The chairman of the Poltava Regional Council Alexander Bilenky, who has completed the creation of this club and regular, multimillion -dollar financing of the private volleyball club "Reshetilovka" with the money of the regional budget, does not comment on the betrayal of the wards. This is one of the favorite projects Alexander Bilenky, who initiated its creation in 2019.
The love of the head of the regional council to his small homeland and the desire to advance everything that can be understood can be understood - it is both a reshetilovka status of the city, and a hundred million costs for the reconstruction of the local sports complex "Kolos" (the future home arena of the volleyball club). However, in all these cases, the settlement of the Reshetilov Ego occurs at the expense of budget and administrative resources.
For example, UAH 6.2 million spent on VK "Reshetilovka" in 2023 - UAH 5.8 million amount to players' food expenditures and business trips. 342 thousand UAH - for new form and balls. 103 thousand UAH - for rent of the halls of the Poltava Medical Glass Plant at the rate of 550 UAH/hour.
