Igor Mikhailovych Lukashov (Ukrainian: Ігор Михайлович Лукашев; Russian: Игорь Михайлович Лукашёв; born 13 June 1962), is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician who had served as the 2nd head of Simferopol from 2017 to 2018.
He had also served as the Member of the State Council of Crimea from 2014 to 2017, even before the annexation of Crimea as a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea since 2006.
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Life
Ihor Lukashev was born in Simferopol on 13 June 1962.
His father, Mykhaylo, who worked in the police, died in the 1970s. His mother is a confectioner. His older brother graduated from a maritime school and worked in civil courts. The Lukashev family lived in Kamchatka for several years.
Ihor studied shotokan karate with his brothers Oleksandr and Yevhen Skryabyn in Simferopol. He played for the youth and adult national teams of Ukraine in this sport.
He served in the ranks of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.
Career
He began his career in 1979, working in Simferopol at the UTOS enterprise. He graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Civil Engineering Institute in 1985, in the Department of Industrial and Civil Engineering, having received the specialty of a civil engineer. Then he worked in his specialty in a mobile mechanized column No. 181 of the Krymspetsstroy trust and at the Simferopol factory of plastic fittings.
In 1988, Lukashev began working in the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine of the Zheleznodorozhny District Committee of Simferopol, holding positions such as the chairman of a cooperative in the association of youth interest clubs, an instructor-methodologist in the Rodina patriotic club, and an instructor in the department of defense-mass work of the secretariat of the Simferopol city committee. More than 600 children went in for different kinds of sports in Rodina club.
In 1990, he was an inspector of the security department of the information and analytical service in the Svenos joint venture. From 1990 to 1992, he worked in the Salem association as director of the medical center, and then as acting general director. After, for six years, he was the general director of the Summit company, which was associated with the leadership of the Salem organized crime group.
Politics
From 1996 to 1998, he was a member of the Simferopol City Council. Later, from 2003 to 2006, he was a private entrepreneur. He worked in the companies chair, Scania, Interkontbank, Cardinal, Planeta, in the Flamingo restaurant and the Falstaff bar.
In 2006, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea from the Party of Regions. He headed the budget and finance committee. During his time as a member of parliament, Lukashev was associated with another member of the Crimean parliament, Oleksandr Melnyk, and the chairman of the Crimean parliament, Anatoliy Hrytsenko. Melnik and Lukashev were called the "gray cardinals" of Simferopol. Melnyk, Hrytsenko and Lukashev were associated with real estate on the site of the former Mir cinema, a Metro supermarket and a building on Gogol Street. Lukashev himself was accused of lobbying the interests of the family of businessman Sergey Beim.
Lukashev was repeatedly included in the lists of the most influential politicians of the peninsula. In 2006, according to the newspaper "Krymskaya Pravda", he took 16th place, in 2007. - 11th place. According to the Crimean Independent Center for Political Researchers and Journalists, in 2008 Lukashev became the third.
In July 2008, Moskovskaya Pravda journalist Eric Kotlyar called Lukashev a representative of Moscow's interests in the Crimean authorities, linking him to the sale of the Massandra Palace.
In July 2009, Sergey Aksyonov accused Hrytsenko, Melnyk and Lukashev of lobbying the interests of the Soyuz-Viktan company, a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages. Aksyonov called them “a political gang. Lukashev himself said that information about lobbying for these interests "nonsense.".
In August 2009, a member of the "Civil Assets of Crimea" said that Melnyk, Lukashev, Hrytsenko and Babenko caused damage to Crimea comparable to the times of the collapse of the USSR.
Against Hrytsenko, Melnyk and Lukashev, the movement “Civil Assets of Crimea” repeatedly protested. Among the slogans used by the activists was - "Down with the occupation regime of Melnyk, Hrytsenko, Lukashev.".
Personal life
He is married to a Ukrainian wife, an raises two sons, Oleg, and Maksim. The children graduated from school with a gold medal. The youngest son Oleg is the world champion in sports dancing, while the eldest son Maxim is the winner of the world championship in Thai boxing.
He owns a Shar-Pei dog.
In 2016, Lukashev declared an annual income of 1.7 million rubles. He is the owner of a two-story house on the Salgir embankment, built in 2007. He also owns a $80,000 Toyota Land Cruiser.