Ivan Kulichenko

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovych and the family name is Kulichenko.

Ivan Kulichenko

Ivan Ivanovych Kulichenko (Ukrainian: Іван Іванович Куліченко; born on 7 July 1955, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Ukrainian politician who was from 2014 until 2019 People's Deputy of Ukraine; prior to this he was Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk[nb 1] for 15 years.[4][5]

Biography

In 1977 Kulichenko graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Civil Engineering.[5] 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.[5] In 1986 Kulichenko was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Dnipropetrovsk City Council.[5] Four years later he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk.[5] Kulichenko became the First Deputy Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk (city) in 1994.[5] In 1999 Kulichenko became acting Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk.[5] Since then he was (re-)elected Mayor four times, in 2000, in 2002, in 2006 and in 2010.[5] In 2010 he was re-elected with 40,1% as a candidate of Party of Regions.[6] His nearest opponent, Svyatoslav Oliynyk of Ukraine of the Future, received 16.1%.[6] On 22 February 2014 Kulichenko left Party of Regions "for peace in the city".[7] Earlier that day locals, while picketing the city council, had demanded his departure of Party of Regions.[7] 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 Kyiv.[8]

In the 2014 parliamentary election Kulichenko won a constituency seat in constituency number 28 situated in Dnipropetrovsk as a candidate of Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 33.5% of the votes.[9] He resigned as mayor on 21 November 2014.[4]

Kulichenko was not re-elected in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, as an independent candidate he failed this time to win a seat in constituency number 28.[10] This time 13.49% of the voters of the constituency voted for him.[10]

Notes

1. Current Dnipro. On 19 May 2016 the Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to officially rename the city of Dnipropetrovsk to Dnipro.[1] The city had to be renamed since (in 1926) the city was renamed after Communist leader Grigory Petrovsky and the 2015 law on decommunization has outlawed the use of Communist names and symbols (in Ukraine).[2][3]

References

1. "Dnipropetrovsk renamed Dnipro". UNIAN. Retrieved 19 May 2016. The decision comes into force from the date of its adoption.
   (in Ukrainian) Верховна Рада України (Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine) Archived 2016-06-23 at the Wayback Machine, Поіменне голосування про проект Постанови про перейменування міста Дніпропетровська Дніпропетровської області (№3864) (Roll-call vote on the draft resolution on renaming of Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk region №3864), 19 May 2016.
   Kyiv Post, Verkhovna Rada renames Dnipropetrovsk as Dnipro, 19 May 2016.
2. Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization. Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015
   Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes, Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20
   Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols, BBC News (14 April 2015)
3. Ukraine tears down controversial statue, by Rostyslav Khotin, BBC News (27 November 2009)
   Same article on UNIAN.
   The Kravchenko Case: One Man's War Against Stalin by Gary Kern, Enigma Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-929631-73-5, page 191
4. (in Ukrainian) Dnipropetrovsk mayor resigned Archived 2015-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrinform (21 November 2014)
5. (in Russian) Short bio, LIGA
6. (in Russian) Dnepropetrovsk: Kulichenko leader and the Party of Regions, Новостей.COM (2010-10-31)
7. (in Ukrainian) Residents Dnipropetrovsk forced mayor to withdraw from the Party of Regions Archived 2014-09-07 at archive.today, Espreso TV (February 22, 2014)
   (in Russian) Dnipropetrovsk mayor left the PR 'for peace in the city' Archived 2014-12-05 at the Wayback Machine, NEWSru.ua (February 22, 2014)
   (in Ukrainian) In Dnepropetrovsk Lenin Square was renamed Heroes Square, the Mayor released from PR, Ukrayinska Pravda (February 22, 2014)
8. Ukraine crisis timeline, BBC News
9. (in Ukrainian) Candidates and winners for the seat of constituency 28 in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Archived 2014-11-26 at archive.today, RBK Ukraine
10. (in Ukrainian) Elections in Dnipro: "The thirst for change overcomes laziness", published infographic, Segodnya (25 July 2019)
    (in Ukrainian) 2019 elections: all majoritarian candidates, district 28 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Segodnya (10 July 2019)

External links

• Official website