[2][5][6] [7][8][9][10] In 1987, Makeyenko graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Civil Aviation in Leningrad in the Russian SFSR and started his working life in 1987 as a manager of an air traffic control center in Boryspil in the Ukrainian SSR.

[6] From 1994 till 1995 Makeyenko was Deputy Head of the trade and economic mission of the Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow.

[5] After a brief stint as Adviser to Prime Minister of Ukraine Yevhen Marchuk in 1995 and 1996 Makeyenko became Head of the Board of Joint Stock Bank Ukrgazprombank till 1998.

[12] On 25 January 2014, Makeyenko was appointed head of the Kyiv City State Administration by President Viktor Yanukovych.

[4][nb 2] Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov dismissed Makeyenko from the post of the head of Kyiv City State Administration on 7 March 2014.