From 2005 to 2006 he studied at the Central European University in Budapest, Master of International Business Law, LL.M., diploma with honors.
From 2006 to 2007, he was a lawyer in the representative office of the American law firm Chadbourne & Parke in Kyiv.
From 2007 to 2010 he was in the Ukrainian office of the English law firm CMS Cameron McKenna in Kyiv.
Between 2013 and November 21, 2019, he was the director of the freight forwarding company "Sonora-Kharkiv" in Kharkiv.
[6] Since November 2019, Ovechkin is the 1st Deputy Head of the Odesa Regional State Administration.