Ivan Kulichenko
Ivan Ivanovych Kulichenko (Ukrainian: Іван Іванович Куліченко; born on 7 July 1955, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is an Ukrainian politician an since the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election People's Deputy of Ukraine; prior to this he was Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk for 15 years.[1][2]
Biography
In 1977 Kulichenko graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Civil Engineering.[2] In 1979, after his conscription in the Armed Forces of the USSR, he became a civil servant in the urban planning department of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[2] In 1986 Kulichenko was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Dnipropetrovsk City Council.[2] Four years later he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk.[2] Kulichenko became the First Deputy Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk (city) in 1994.[2] In 1999 Kulichenko became acting Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk.[2] Since then he was (re-)elected Mayor four times, in 2000, in 2002, in 2006 and in 2010.[2] In 2010 he was re-elected with 40,1% as a candidate of Party of Regions.[3] His nearest opponent, Svyatoslav Oliynyk of Ukraine of the Future, received 16.1%.[3] On 22 February 2014 Kulichenko left Party of Regions "for peace in the city".[4] Earlier that day locals, while picketing the city council, had demanded his departure of Party of Regions.[4] 22 February 2014 was also the day that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Region's lead Second Azarov Government were ousted out of office, after the months long Euromaidan-demonstrations had accumulated into the 2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupations and deadly violence in Kiev.[5]
In the 2014 parliamentary election Kulichenko won a constituency seat in Dnipropetrovsk as an candidate of Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 33.5% of the votes.[6] He resigned as mayor on 21 November 2014.[1]
References
- ^ a b Template:Uk icon Dnipropetrovsk mayor resigned, Ukrinform (21 November 2014)
- ^ a b c d e f g h Template:Ru icon Short bio, LIGA
- ^ a b Template:Ru icon Dnepropetrovsk: Kulichenko leader and the Party of Regions, Новостей.COM (2010-10-31)
- ^ a b Template:Uk icon Residents Dnipropetrovsk forced mayor to withdraw from the Party of Regions, Espreso TV (February 22, 2014)
Template:Ru icon Dnipropetrovsk mayor left the PR 'for peace in the city', NEWSru.ua (February 22, 2014)
Template:Uk icon In Dnepropetrovsk Lenin Square was renamed Heroes Square, the Mayor released from PR, Ukrayinska Pravda (February 22, 2014) - ^ Ukraine crisis timeline, BBC News
- ^ Template:Uk icon Candidates and winners for the seat of constituency 28 in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, RBK Ukraine
External links
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- Living people
- People from Dnipropetrovsk
- Mayors of Dnipropetrovsk
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- Petro Poroshenko Bloc politicians
- People of the Euromaidan
- Pro-Ukrainian people of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
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