[2] Kostusyev previously served as the head of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine, the nation's premier competition regulator.

[3] Father Oleksiy Oleksiyovych (1928–1983) — Captain of the 1st rank, sailor-border guard; mother Violla Alekseevna (1932) — a doctor.

Wife Irina Vasylivna (1965) — engineer; son Goncharenko Oleksiy Oleksiyovych – Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VIII and IX convocations; daughter Viola (born 1988) is a student.

In 2004 he defended his doctoral dissertation on Methodological principles of forming an effective competitive environment in the economy of Ukraine (Odesa State University of Economics).

08.1975–01.91 — M.Sc., postgraduate student, assistant, senior teacher, associate professor, head of the department of social flight.

01.1991–01.93 — head Department, Deputy chairman for Economic Affairs, Kyiv District Executive Committee of Odesa.

councils for coordination of activities of national and regional bodies and local self-government (since 12.2000); member of the Nat.

Council for the Adaptation of the Legislation of Ukraine to the Legislation of the European Union (since 08.2000); Chairman of the Interstate Council on Antitrust Policy of the CIS member states (since 2004); member of the Interdepartmental Commission on Information.

[9] Order of the Holy Apostolic Grand Duke Vladimir III (04.2001), II century.

The mayor later stated that he had entered in the column "material assistance" — an inheritance from a deceased friend.

Subsequently, on January 31, 2011, Kostusev initiated a meeting of the Odesa City Council session where they decided that Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych were not heroes of Ukraine.