The following is a list of mayors of the city of

Chernivtsi Chernivtsi (, ; , ;, , see also #Names, other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River. Formerly the capital of the historic region of Bukovina, which is now divided between Romania and Ukraine, Chernivt ...

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. It includes positions equivalent to mayor, such as chairperson of the city council executive committee.

Austrian period

Prehistory

In the period from 1780 to 1832 the town was ruled by so-called municipal judges. Usually they led the city only between one and two years. A longer tenure had only Joseph Hampel (1796–1800 and 1802–1811), Alexander Beldowicz (1811–1817) and the last city judge, Andreas Klug (1817–1832).

1832: Regulation of local government, creating a magistrate

Source: * Franz Lihotzky (1832–1848) * Adalbert Suchanek (1848–1854) * Josef Ortynski (1854–1858) * Josef Lepszy (1859–1861) * Julius Hubrich (1861–1864)

1864: Czernowitz becomes a town with its own statute

* Jakob Ritter von Petrowicz (1864–1866) * Anton Freiherr Kochanowski von Stawczan (1866–1874) * Otto Ambros Edler von Rechtenberg (1874–1880) * Wilhelm Ritter von Klimesch (1881–1887) * Anton Freiherr Kochanowski von Stawczan (1887–1905), since April 4, 1905 honorary mayor * Dr. Eduard Reiss (1905–1907) * Felix Freiherr Brewer von Fürth (1907–1913) * Dr. Salo Edler von Weisselberger (1913–1918)“Bukowinaer Post“ vom Donnerstag, 6. November 1913

Since 1918

Period of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic

Yosyp Bezpalko Yosyp Ivanovych Bezpalko (; 1881 – 1950) was a Ukrainian politician and writer from Northern Bukovina. Biography He was born in Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina to a poor middle-class family. Due to political activity, he was expelled from ...

, 1918

Romanian period

* Gheorghe Șandru, 1918–1919 * Teofil Siminovici, 1919–1920 * Gheorghe Șandru, 1920–1922 * Nicu Flondor, 1922–1926 * Barbu Grigorovici, 1926 * Radu Sbiera, 1926–1927 * Romulus Cândea, 1927–1929 * Dimitrie Marmeluc, 1933–1938 * Nicu Flondor, 1938–1940

Soviet period

* Alexey Ivanovich Nikitin, 1940–1941 * Anton Ivanovich Koshovyi, 1944–1945 * Alexander Nikiforovich Gritsay, 1945–1948 * , 1948–1949 * Polikarp Arkhipovich Kotko, 1949–1950 * Viktor Ivanovich Gutafel, 1950–1954 * Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhailovsky, 1954–1959 * Petro Petrovych Donchenko, 1959–1964 * Vasil Petrovich Tolmach, 1964–1972 * , 1972–1985 * , 1985–1991 * Georgy Dmitrovich Grodetsky, 1991

Modernity

* , 1991–2004 *

Mykola Fedoruk Mykola Trokhymovych Fedoruk (; 20 March 1954 – 7 May 2025) was a Ukrainian politician. A member of Batkivshchyna and the People's Front, he served as mayor of Chernivtsi from 1994 to 2011 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada The Verkho ...

, 1994–2011 * , 2014–2020 *

Roman Klichuk Roman Vasylyovych Klichuk (; born 31 March 1972, Chernivtsi) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman, and the current Mayor of Chernivtsi. Early life Roman Klichuk was born on 31 October 1972 in Chernivtsi into a family of doctors. He grad ...

, 2020-

Gallery

;Mayors during Austrian period File:Jakob Ritter von Petrowicz.png, Jakob von Petrowicz File:Anton Kochanowski von Stawczan 1877.jpg, Anton Kochanowski von Stawczan File:Otto Ambros von Rechtenberg.png, Otto Ambros von Rechtenberg File:Wilhelm Ritter von Klimesch.png, Wilhelm von Klimesch File:Dr. Eduard Reiß.png, Eduard Reiss File:Felix Freiherr Brewer von Fürth.png, Felix Brewer von Fürth File:Salo von Weisselberger.jpg, Salo von Weisselberger ;Ukrainian mayors of Chernivtsi File:Осип Безпалко.jpg, Yosyp Bezpalko

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:List of mayors of Chernivtsi Politicians of Bukovina * History of Bukovina