Igor Uchytel


Ihor Leonidovych Uchytel was a Ukrainian academic who was Chairman of the Supervisory Council of JSC ODESAGAZ, academician of the Academy of Technical Sciences of Ukraine and Associate Professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences.
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Life and career

Uchytel was born on 31 March 1955, in Odesa, Ukrainian SSR. In 1977, he graduated from the Odesa State Engineering and Construction Institute with a degree in Heat and Gas Supply and Ventilation.
During 1977–1978, he worked as a foreman of the emergency dispatch service of ODESAGAZ. Then he took the position of Рead of the design office of ODESAGAZ.
In 1986, he began working as the Deputy Head of the Odesa Interdistrict Production Department of the Gas Industry, and since 1990, as Chief Engineer of ODESAGAZ.
In 1998, Uchytel became the First Deputy Chairman of the Board of ODESAGAZ Open Joint-Stock Company. And in a year, he became the Chairman of the Board of OJSC ODESAGAZ.
From 2008 to 2020, Uchytel held the position of the President of the public joint-stock company ODESAGAZ. In 2020, he became Chairman of the Supervisory Council - JSC ODESAGAZ. He died on 11 June 2025, at the age of 70.

Public activities and sponsorship

Uchytel was a charter member of the Rotary Club Odesa Richelieu.
He supported the creation of the museum of JSC ODESAGAZ and in 2013 he initiated the creation of the football team Black Sea Riviera.
In 2015, with his support, a football section for children was found in Odesa and the same year, Uchytel sponsored the construction of a descent to the sea for the residents of Kryzhanivka village. He supported construction of a kindergarten in Fontanka village in 2018.
He served as Deputy of the Odesa regional council of IV, V, VI, and VII convocations. During that time, he headed the Standing Commission for Housing and Communal Services, Fuel and Energy Complex, and Energy Saving Sector. In 2020, he stepped down as Deputy of the Odeska Oblast Council.

Scientific activity

Uchytel was elected as a full correspondent member of the Academy of Civil Engineering of Ukraine at the Odesa Territorial Branch on 22 December 1998. Two years later, on 4 February 2000, he became an academic advisor at the Engineering Academy of Ukraine.
Uchytel defended his thesis "Study of space-time dependences of the gas pipeline of Odesa" and received the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences in "Geodesy" at the National University "Lviv Polytechnic" in 2001.
On 19 December 2009, the Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine named Uchytel the correspondent member in "Environmental Technologies and Geotechnologies.” And on 20 May 2011, he became an academician at the Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine and on 3 June 2011 – at the Engineering Academy of Ukraine.
Uchytel was elected as a full member of the Academy of Energy of Ukraine on 21 December 2013.

Awards

On 3 September 2000, as the head of Odesagas JSC Uchytel received a diploma from the International Open Rating of Popularity and Quality of Goods and Services Golden Fortune with the title Laureate of the Rating.
On 24 August 2003, the NJS NAFTOGAZ of Ukraine awarded Uchytel an honorary award of the 1st degree.
Uchytel also received the honorary award of the Odesa mayor for services to the city on 27 August 2004. Head of the Odesa regional state administration awarded Uchytel the honorary award "60 years of liberation of Odesa region from fascist invaders" in the same year.
The Ukrainian Society of Geodesy and Cartography gave the honorary award For Merits in Geodesy and Cartography of the 1st degree to Uchytel on 17 March 2006.
The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine awarded Uchytel the honorary award "For the Development of Social Partnership" on 20 August 2008.
Former President Victor Yushchenko awarded Uchytel the Order of Merit of the 3rd class on 25 December 2009.
Uchytel received an honorary award named after G.G. Maeazli of the III class on 2 September 2010, and of the II classя.
On 3 April 2014, the Certification Board of the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports awarded Uchytel the title of Associate Professor.
On 23 December 2014, Uchytel was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Odesa region.

Monographs

  • Kapochkin B.B., Uchytel I.L., Yaroshenko V.M., Gladkikh I.I. Osnovy neoheodinamiki, merezhi hazoprovodiv yak element deformatsiynoho monitorynhu . Odesa, Astroprint, 2000, 144 pages.
  • Kapochkin B.B., Uchytel I.L., Yaroshenko V.M., Voitenko S.P.. Heodynamika. Osnovy kinematychnoyi heodeziyi . Odesa, Astroprint, 2007, 264 pages.
  • Uchytel I.L. Ruynivni vlastyvosti heodeformatsii . Odesa, Astroprint, 2010, 222 pages.
  • Kapochkin B.B., Uchytel I.L. Zmina paradyhmy suchasnoyi heodynamiky ta seysmotektoniky . LAPLAMBERT AcademicPublishing, 2014, 80 pages.

Thesis

1. Uchytel I.L. Avtoreferat Doslidzhennya prostorovo-chasovykh zalezhnostey avariynosti hazoprovodiv m.Odesy . Lviv, 2001.
2. Uchytel I.L. Dysertatsiya na zdobuttya naukovoho stupenya kandydata tekhnichnykh nauk Doslidzhennya prostorovo-chasovykh zalezhnostey avariynosti hazoprovodiv m.Odesy Lviv, 2001.