The Central Election Commission, at its meeting on February 18, 2026, officially registered Olesya Otradnova as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the “Servant of the People” party.
This was reported by the CEC press service.
She received the mandate after the previous candidate in line, Roman Kravets, refused a seat in parliament, and another candidate, Yuriy Fedorenko, was excluded from the lists due to his service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the early elections of people's deputies of Ukraine on July 21, 2019, in the nationwide multi-mandate electoral district, Otradnova was added to the electoral list under No. 160 from the political party “Servant of the People”.
She will assume the powers of a people's deputy from the moment she takes the oath in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Who is Olesya Otradnova?
Olesya Otradnova was born on July 14, 1977 in the city of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region (Russian Federation).
In 1999, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, receiving a Master of Laws degree.
Since 2001, she has worked as an assistant, associate professor, and professor at the Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
In 2002, she defended her dissertation as a candidate of legal sciences on the topic “Penalty in the Civil Law of Ukraine.” In the same year, she received a certificate of the right to practice law.
In 2014, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic “Mechanism of Civil Law Regulation of Tort Obligations.”
In 2015, she became Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
At the time of the 2019 elections to the Council, she was the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law, a professor of the Department of Civil Law at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, non-partisan, and lives in Kyiv.
In 2020−2025, Otradnova held the position of Director of the Prosecutors' Training Center of Ukraine.