Oleksiy Vadaturskyy was born in a farmer’s family in Odesa region on September 8, 1947. In 1971, he graduated from Odesa Technological Institute of Food Industry named after M. V. Lomonosov. Oleksiy started his career at Trykratne Plant of Bread Products as a chief power engineer, and later he became a chief engineer. From 1980 to 1983, he headed the production department at Mykolaiv Regional Department of Bread Products. From 1983 to 1993, he held the position of the deputy head at Mykolaiv Regional Department of Bread Products. In 1991, Oleksiy Vadaturskyy founded
Nibulon, a company mainly specializing in producing and selling hybrid corn and sunflower seeds. From 1998 to 2006, Vadaturskyy was twice elected a deputy of the Mykolaiv Regional Council. In November 2007, he was awarded the title of
Hero of Ukraine by President
Yushchenko. In November 2018, the Russian government introduced sanctions against Vadaturskyy and Nibulon company.
Death In the early hours of 31 July 2022, Vadaturskyy and his wife were killed by a Russian missile strike on their private house in the city of Mykolaiv. Seven or eight Russian missiles hit his home in the Zavodsky district, raising strong suspicions that Vadaturskyy was intentionally targeted and assassinated by Russia to affect the crop export industry of Ukraine.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, called the missile strike a "premeditated murder [of] one of the most important agricultural entrepreneurs in the country"
. The attack occurred as the first shipment of grain was getting ready to leave Ukraine on 1 August. The
Orthodox funeral service for Vadaturskyy on 12 August in a Kyiv cathedral was attended by several hundred people, including the mayor of Mykolaiv,
Oleksandr Senkevych. Vadaturskyy was succeeded by his son
Andriy Vadaturskyi, a politician, co-owner of Nibulon (till August 2022), married, with three children. == Personal life ==