During the massive shelling of Nikolaev, the Hero of Ukraine, a well-known businessman Oleksiy Vadatursky, was killed, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko reports. According to Ukrainian media reports, he died on July 30.
Vadatursky was the owner of the largest grain trading company Nibulon. A missile from the Russian S-300 complex hit his house.
Aleksey Vadatursky was born on September 8, 1947 in the village of Bendzari, Baltsky district, Odessa region, Ukrainian SSR, in the family of a collective farmer. In 1971 he graduated from the Odessa Technological Institute. He worked at the Trikrat Bread Products Plant as a chief power engineer, then as a chief engineer. From 1980 to 1991 – head of the production department, deputy head of the Nikolaev regional department of bakery products. Since 1991 – the permanent general director of the agricultural enterprise “Nibulon”, which is engaged in the cultivation of crops using foreign technologies and high-performance imported equipment, the development of livestock breeding.
In June 2020, Forbes Ukraine magazine estimated Vadatursky’s fortune at $450 million.
He died as a result of a missile attack on Nikolaev on July 30, 2022.