Oleg Anatolievich Dovgopol (; born 14 October 1975) is a Transnistrian politician serving as the mayor of

Tiraspol Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the th ...

and

Dnestrovsc Dnestrovsc ( ro, Nistrovsc; russian: Днестрóвск, Dnestrovsk; uk, Дністровськ, Dnistrovs'k) is a town in southern Moldova, near the border with Ukraine. It is at the shores of the Cuciurgan Reservoir and is home to the Cuciur ...

since 23 December 2016.

Biography

Dovgopol was born on 14 October 1975 in

Bershad Bershad ( uk, Бершадь, translit., ''Bershad’''; pl, Berszad; ro, Berșad) is a town in the Vinnytsia Oblast (province) of Ukraine, located in the historic region of Podolia. It is the administrative center of the predominantly-agricult ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

and moved to

with his family in 1979. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Shevchenko Transnistria State University. Since 1997 he served in the state security bodies of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. In 2005, he was elected a deputy of the Tiraspol City Council of People's Deputies. From 2006 to 2016 he worked as director of Centr-Market OOO. Since 23 December 2016 he has been serving as the mayor of Tiraspol and

References

1975 births Living people People from Bershad Transnistrian people of Ukrainian descent Transnistrian politicians {{DEFAULTSORT:Dovgopol, Oleg