Nikolai Nikolaevich Tyshchenko – People’s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation, restaurateur, TV presenter.
Place of Birth, Education
He was born on May 17, 1972 in the city of Kyiv.
He received higher education at the Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Career
Since 1998, he has been working in the restaurant business.
Since 2005, he has participated in various television projects, including “Patriot Games”, “Fort Bayar” and “Lord of the Hill”.
In 2007, he founded the Nasha Karta group of companies, which eventually included the restaurants “Velor”, “Richelieu”, “Safe”, “TurgeneF”, “Three Forks”, Coin, “Beehive”, sushi bar “Fluffy”, beach complex “Olmeca Plage” and bar “Fahrenheit”.
In 2008, he began to serve as president of the Kyiv Beach Volleyball Association.
In March 2010, he became the captain of the Kyiv team in the TV show “Battle of Ukrainian Cities”, which aired on the Inter channel.
In 2011, he joined the jury of the culinary project “MasterChef” on the STB TV channel. He left the project in 2016. The following year, he became the host of the program “The Inspector General” on the “New Channel”.
In 2018, he took part in the show “Dancing with the Stars” on the 1+1 TV channel as an invited guest.
Political Activities
In the parliamentary elections of 2019, he was elected a people’s deputy from the Servant of the People party.
On June 14, 2020, he headed the Kyiv branch of the Servant of the People party.
In March 2021, he was appointed head of the Transcarpathian regional organization of the party, after which he left the post of head of the Kyiv branch.
On July 19, 2022, the head of the party, Olena Shulyak , decided to terminate his powers in Transcarpathia.
On January 26, 2023, he was expelled from the party after a scandalous trip to Thailand, and the very next day, January 27, he was expelled from the Servant of the People parliamentary faction.
Criminal cases
Tyshchenko is a defendant in the case of an attack on a former Kraken special forces soldier in Dnipro. The incident occurred when the victim was walking through the city center with a baby in a stroller. Tyshchenko came to Dnipro, stating that he intends to fight illegal offices and bot farms. He later claimed that the victim was allegedly connected to a fraudulent network.
On June 25, Tyshchenko was charged with unlawful deprivation of liberty of a former serviceman. On the same day, the court decided to place him under house arrest.
On July 3, he tried to appeal the measure of restraint, but the court left him under round-the-clock house arrest.
Marital Status
The first wife of Mykola Tyshchenko was Larysa. In this marriage, a son, Daniel, was born in 2005.
For the second time, he married Iryna Zhuravska, niece of the former deputy mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Zhuravsky. However, their marriage lasted only six months, after which the couple divorced.
In 2016, Tishchenko married for the third time – Alla Baranovskaya became his chosen one. On February 21, 2017, they had a son, David.
On January 18, 2024, it became known about the divorce of the spouses.
