Andrey Rostenko

Andrey Olegovich Rostenko (; born 6 April 1969 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan ) is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician who served as the de facto Mayor of Yalta, Crimea, from 2014 to 2017 following the Russian annexation of Crimea. He is also the former Head of the Yalta Municipal Administration of the Republic of Crimea of the Yalta International Forum Foundation.

Early life Rostenko was born on 6 April 1969 in Tashkent, which was then part of the Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union. In 1990, he graduated from the Simferopol Higher Military‑Political Construction School with a qualification for the military and as a teacher of history and social studies. He was dismissed from the position in July 2017 for alleged ineffective management of the administration of Yalta.

He then served as, from August 2017 to October 2019, as Assistant to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers before becoming Assistant to the Head of the Republic of Crimea until August 2020. The case was further ignited upon the revelation of a housing scandal, where it was found he moved into a luxury villa, despite the fact that his salary was relatively modest and he left unpaid utility debts.