Ivan Ivanovych Kulichenko (; born on 7 July 1955,

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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 Armed Forces of the USSR, he became a civil servant in the

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. In 1986 Kulichenko was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the

Dnipropetrovsk City Council Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...

. 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

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Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk. After that he was (re-)elected mayor four times, in

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and in

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

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Новостей.COM (2010-10-31) His nearest opponent, Svyatoslav Oliynyk of Ukraine of the Future, 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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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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and the Party of Region-led Second Azarov Government were ousted out of office, after the months long

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

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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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, 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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kulichenko, Ivan 1955 births Living people Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture alumni 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 Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class