Ivan Ivanovych Kulichenko ( uk, Іван Іванович Куліченко; born on 7 July 1955, Dnipropetrovsk,

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n politician who was from

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until

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; prior to this he was Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk for 15 years.Short bio
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Biography

In 1977 Kulichenko graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Civil Engineering. In 1979, after his conscription in the

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, he became a civil servant in the

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department of the

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukra ...

. In 1986 Kulichenko was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Dnipropetrovsk City Council. Four years later he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk. Kulichenko became the First Deputy Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk (city) in 1994. In 1999 Kulichenko became acting Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk. Since then he was (re-)elected Mayor four times, in

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, in 2002, in 2006 and in 2010. In 2010 he was re-elected with 40,1% as a candidate of

Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of U ...

.Dnepropetrovsk: Kulichenko leader and the Party of Regions
Новостей.COM (2010-10-31) His nearest opponent,

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, received 16.1%. On 22 February 2014 Kulichenko left Party of Regions "for peace in the city". Earlier that day locals, while picketing the city council, had demanded his departure of Party of Regions.Residents Dnipropetrovsk forced mayor to withdraw from the Party of Regions
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(February 22, 2014)
Dnipropetrovsk mayor left the PR 'for peace in the city'
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In Dnepropetrovsk Lenin Square was renamed Heroes Square, the Mayor released from PR

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(February 22, 2014) 22 February 2014 was also the day that

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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

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.Ukraine crisis timeline

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In the 2014 parliamentary election Kulichenko won a constituency seat in constituency number 28 situated in Dnipropetrovsk as a candidate of

Petro Poroshenko Bloc European Solidarity ( uk, Європейська солідарність, Yevropeis'ka solidarnist', YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in vario ...

with 33.5% of the votes.Candidates and winners for the seat of constituency 28 in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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He resigned as mayor on 21 November 2014.Dnipropetrovsk mayor resigned
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(21 November 2014) Kulichenko was not re-elected in the

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, as an independent candidate he failed this time to win a seat in constituency number 28. This time 13.49% of the voters of the constituency voted for him.Elections in Dnipro: "The thirst for change overcomes laziness", published infographic

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(25 July 2019)2019 elections: all majoritarian candidates, district 28 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

(10 July 2019)

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References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kulichenko, Ivan 1955 births Living people Mayors of Dnipro Independent politicians in Ukraine Party of Regions politicians Petro Poroshenko Bloc politicians People of the Euromaidan Pro-Ukrainian people of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada 21st-century Ukrainian politicians Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class