Oleksandr Boyko

Oleksandr Leonidovych Boyko (born 1965, Odesa, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and the founder and owner of Automagistral-Pivden, the largest construction company in Ukraine. involving corruption schemes, cartel collusion, corporate raiding He also has close ties to Yuriy Holyk, the coordinator of Ukraine’s Great Construction program, and is linked to the former father-in-law of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

Early life

Oleksandr Leonidovych Boyko was born in 1965 in Odesa, Ukraine. He graduated from the Odesa State Agrarian University.

Career

He began earning his first income in the early 1990s, focusing on freight transport and construction. In 1996, he founded a closed joint-stock company called Astoria, which has since been liquidated.

By the late 2000s, Boyko's business activities had shifted towards road construction.

During the Presidency of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Automagistral-Pivden became the leading private contractor for the national Great Construction program.

In March 2021, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine granted Boyko permission to consolidate over 50% of the shares in Automagistral-Pivden.

As of 2025, Automagistral-Pivden is responsible for approximately 22.5% of all construction work in Ukraine, making it a key player in the country’s road construction sector. It is considered the largest construction company in Ukraine as of 2025.

Ties to Yuriy Holyk

Oleksandr Boyko has close ties with Yuriy Holyk, the coordinator of the Great Construction program and a former adviser to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration. According to Forbes, Holyk was responsible for coordinating Automagistral-Pivden with government agencies in his capacity as a contractor representative.

Controversies

The activities of Oleksandr Boyko and his companies have repeatedly been the subject of journalistic investigations. Other members of this cartel include Rostdorstroy, Onur Construction International, Tekhno Stroy Tsentr, and Dorozhne Budivnytstvo "Altkom". Together, these companies reportedly control approximately 65-80% of the road construction market and related infrastructure projects in Ukraine, amounting to tens of billions of hryvnias annually. The company began construction work on land used by another enterprise, LLC "Vitruvia", without the required permits. The works were reportedly conducted in the interests of the local Hostomel administration to build a modular town.

Ties to Roman Abramovich's former father-in-law

According to media reports, Oleksandr Boyko has business ties with Aleksandr Zhukov, former father-in-law of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. The contract was awarded without an open tender. The total cost of the project amounted to approximately 7.7 billion hryvnias, of which, according to a journalistic investigation by RBC-Ukraine, over 3 billion hryvnias may have been overpaid due to excessive technical solutions, inflated construction and logistics costs. Experts specifically pointed to the construction of an unnecessary pumping station, an excessive number of pipelines, and inefficient organization of material supplies. Media reports also indicated that the project was supervised by Yuriy Holyk, a former advisor to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration and one of the coordinators of the Great Construction program. The National Police of Ukraine opened a criminal investigation into possible abuses and money laundering.