Career
Before fall of the Soviet Union for eight years (1983-1991) he worked as an investigator for Kiev city militsiya. During that time in 1989 Zhebrivsky received his jurist diploma from the Kiev University. After that he worked as a general director or president for various private companies from Kiev such as "Dzhaya", "Yan", "Farmatsiya-2000" and others
In 2005 Zhebrivsky served as a governor of Zhytomyr Oblast.
In 2009 he created own party "Ukrainian Platform" that in 2011 was merged with Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor" into Ukrainian Platform "Sobor" headed by Zhebrivsky. After the Russian invasion in August 2014 he resigned as a leader of the party and until January 2015 served as a senior sergeant (first sergeant) at frontlines of the War in Donbass.
In January–June 2015 Zhebrivsky worked for the General Prosecutor of Ukraine before being appointed as a governor of Donetsk Oblast.