A salary of ₴75 thousand and an apartment for a penny: what the mayor of Novyi Buh declared

The mayor of Novyi Buh, Maksym Lahodienko, declared 906 thousand hryvnias as the mayor's salary in 2023. On average, this is 75.5 thousand hryvnias per month.

This is evidenced by the data published in the Unified State Register of Declarations, writes NikVesti.

Maksym Lahodienko declared a residential building in Novyi Buh with an area of 122 square meters, which he purchased in 2012, but did not specify its value. He is also the owner of an apartment in Novyi Buh, with an area of 36 square meters, which the mayor bought in 2008 for 5 thousand hryvnias.

He also owns three plots of land in Novyi Buh, the total area of which is 1.7 thousand square meters. Maksym Lagodienko has another plot of land in the village of Pokazne of the Bashtanka district — its area is 49,600 square meters. And his wife is the owner of two plots of land in Novyi Buh, with a total area of 2.2 thousand square meters.

In 2023, Maksym Lahodienko received 906,000 hryvnias as the mayor of Novyi Buh, which is an average of 75,500 hryvnias per month. He received another 14.4 thousand hryvnias for «independent professional activity» from the Department of Education, Youth and Sports of the Executive Committee of the Novyi Buh City Council. At the same time, his wife Viktoriia received 62.1 thousand hryvnias in salary from the private rental company «Victoria».

What is in the declarations for 2023?

We will remind that the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Vitalii Kim declared that he owns six apartments and two cars, and together with his wife keeps more than 95 thousand dollars and 500 thousand hryvnias in cash.

At the same time, the mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Sienkevych submitted a declaration of income and property for 2023: he received 678 thousand hryvnias in salary, and his wife purchased three types of cryptocurrency.

The declarations were also published by the deputy heads of the Mykolaiv RMA, the deputy heads of the Kherson RMA and the deputy mayors of Mykolaiv. In particular, the first deputy mayor Vitalii Lukov indicated in the declaration for 2023 that he received 31,629 hryvnias for speaking at an online lecture in Berlin.

According to the declaration for 2023, the First Deputy Chairman of the Mykolaiv Regional Council, Anton Tabunshchik, received 862,000 wages. On average, it is 72 thousand hryvnias per month.

The mayor of Voznesensk, Yevhenii Velychko, and the mayor of Pervomaisk, Oleh Demchenko, also published their declarations. The mayor of Voznesensk declared 515,000 hryvnias of wages, and the Pervomaisk — 1.7 million hryvnias of wages and a NISSAN X-TRAIL car for 10,000 hryvnias.

And the head of the Snihurivka city military administration, Ivan Kukhta, declared 14 hectares of land, four cars and $110,000 in cash.