[1] Pyvovarsky graduated in 2000 from the history department of the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv.

[3] In 2003 he received a master's degree in International Business and Finance of Tufts University (United States).

[3] In January 2013 Pyvovarsky became CEO of Continuum Group, which is owned by Ihor Yeremeyev, Stepan Ivakhiv and Petro Dyminskyi.

[4] He stated he planned to resign because his subordinates, volunteers he had attracted to the ministry, could not "work having non-market salaries".

[5] An anonymous source in his ministry told UNIAN that Pyvovarsky was "extremely dissatisfied" with the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction refusal to adopt key bills regarding Ukraine's transport industry.