Anatoliy Ihorovych Urbanskyi was born on 21 June 1975 in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa.

In 1997, he graduated from National University «Odesa Maritime Academy», specialising in the organisation of transit and management of marine transportation.

After his graduation, he began working in the investment field, before joining the ship repair industry in 2005.

[1] From 2015 to 2019, Urbanskyi was a member of and speaker of the Odesa Oblast Council as a candidate of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.

[3] In the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), Urbanskyi joined the For the Future party.