The following is a list of

mayors In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a Municipal corporation, municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilitie ...

of the city of

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

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

Wójt A wójt is the highest administrative officer of a Polish ''rural gmina'', i.e., of a commune (''gmina'') comprising only villages. (The head of a town or city is called, respectively, the ''burmistrz'' or "president".) History and etymology T ...
(head of city government)

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...

* Zanko (Hanko) Onkovych, c.1498/1502-1514 * Jan, c.1514-c.1528 * Ivan Cherevchey, 1528-1540 * Jan Dkhorevs'kyj, c.1544-1548 * Semen Meleshkovych, 1548-1550 * Maksym Khonych, 1550-1555 * Semen Meleshkovych, 1555/1558-1563 (2nd term) * Bohush Lenkevych of

Kotwicz coat of arms Kotwicz is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. History Blazon Arms: Argent, fess gules. Notable bearers Notable bearers of this coat of arms include: Kotwic ...

, 1563-1564 * Yurii Klymovych, 1565-1566 * Vasyl Cherevchey, 1566-1567 * Stanislav Sokolovs'kyj, 1568-1570

Kingdom of Poland The Kingdom of Poland (; Latin: ''Regnum Poloniae'') was a monarchy in Central Europe during the Middle Ages, medieval period from 1025 until 1385. Background The West Slavs, West Slavic tribe of Polans (western), Polans who lived in what i ...

* Ustym Fits- Kobyzevych of

Masalski 200px, Coat of Arms of the Massalski family The House of Massalski (Plural: Massalscy; , feminine form: Massalska), sometimes Masalski, Massalsky or Mosalsky, is a Polish-Lithuanian, Russian-Lithuanian princely family of Ruthenian origin from ...

coat of arms, 1569 (acting) * Havrylo Roj, 1570-1575 * Semen Konashkovych, 1575 (acting) * Fedir Cherevchey, 1576-1581 * Semen Konashkovych, 1581-1587 * Fedir Vovk, 1587-1592/1593 * Erazm Strawinski of

Sulima coat of arms Sulima is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Notable people using the symbol were Zawisza Czarny—a famous Polish knight—and the Sułkowski family ...

, 1593 * Yatsko Balyka of

Abdank coat of arms Abdank is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several ''szlachta'' families in the times of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Blazoning Gules '' łękawica'' argent, crest: łąkawica as in arms. History Accord ...

, 1593-1612 * Fedir Khodyka-Kobyzevych of

coat of arms, 1613-1625 * Artem Konashkovych, 1625-1628 * Sozon Balyka, 1628-1629 * Ivan Yevseyovych, 1629-1631 * Stefan Kryvkovych, 1631-1632 * Yosyf Khodyka, 1633-1641 * Samiylo (Samuel) Mefedovych, 1641-1644 * Andrii (Andrzej) Khodyka, 1644-1649

Cossack Hetmanate The Cossack Hetmanate (; Cossack Hetmanate#Name, see other names), officially the Zaporozhian Host (; ), was a Ukrainian Cossacks, Cossack state. Its territory was located mostly in central Ukraine, as well as in parts of Belarus and southwest ...

Source: * Bohdan Somkovych, 1649-1651 * Andrzej Khodyka, 1651 (restoration of Polish rule by Janusz Radziwiłł) * Bohdan Somkovych, 1653-1660 * Danilo Polotsky, 1660-1675 * Fedir-Zhdan Tadryna, 1675-1677 * Zhdan Tadryna, 1677-1687 * Jan Bykovsky, 1687-1699 * Fedor Bykovsky, 1699 * Dmytro Polotsky, 1699-1733

Russian Empire (as part of
Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–19 ...
)

* Kuzma Krychevyts, 1733–1734 * Pavlo Voynich, 1734-1751 * Ivan Sychevsky, 1753-1766 * Hryhoriy Pyvovarov, 1766-1781 * Yakiv Davydovsky, 1781-1785 * Vasyl Kopystensky, 1785-1787 (head of city

duma A duma () is a Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions. The term ''boyar duma'' is used to refer to advisory councils in Russia from the 10th to 17th centuries. Starting in the 18th century, city dumas were formed across Russia ...

) * Yuhym Mytyuk, 1787-1790 (head of city duma) * Hryhoriy Radzytsky, 1790-1801 (head of city duma until the restoration of Magdeburg Law in 1798) * Heorhiy Rybalsky, 1801-1813 * Philip Lakerda, 1813-1814 * Mykhailo Hryhorenko, 1815-1826 * Hryhoriy Kyselivsky, 1826-1834

Mayors (heads of the city)

Russian Empire

* , 1835-1837 * , 1837-1838 * , 1838-1841 * , 1841-1844 * , 1844-1847 * , 1847-1851 * , 1851-1853 * , 1853-1854 * , 1854-1857 * , 1857-1860 * , 1860-1863 * , 1863-1871 * Pavlo Demidov San Donato, 1871–1872, 1873-1874 * , 1872-1873 * , 1875-1879 * , 1879-1884 * , 1884-1887 * , 1887-1900 * , 1900-1906 * , 1906-1916 * , 1916-1917

Ukrainian People's Republic

* Yevhen Ryabtsov, 1917-1918 * Ipolyt Dyakov, 1918 * Yevhen Ryabtsov, 1918-1919 * , 1919 * , 1920 (military commissar)

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

* Hryhoriy Chudnovsky, 1918 (civil commissar) *

Andrei Bubnov Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov (; – 1 August 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader, Soviet Union, Soviet politician and military leader, member of the Left Opposition, and an important Bolshevik figure in Ukraine. Life Early career ...

, 1919 (head of City Executive Council) * Andriy Ivanov, 1919-1920 (head of Kyiv Governorate Revolutionary Committee) * Mykhailo Vetoshkin, 1920 (head of Kyiv Governorate Revolutionary Committee) * Yan Gamarnik, 1920-1923 (until 1921 - head of Kyiv Governorate Revolutionary Committee, after 1921 - head of Kyiv City Council) *

Hryhoriy Hrynko Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko (; in Shtepivka – March 15, 1938) was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman who held high office in the government of the Soviet Union. He served as finance minister of the Soviet Union in Moscow, from 1930 to 1937, replacin ...

, 1923-1925 * , 1925 *

Panas Lyubchenko Panas Petrovych Lyubchenko (; 14 January 1897 – 30 August 1937) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister) from 1934 to ...

, 1925-1927 * , 1928-1932 * , 1932 * , 1932-1934 * , 1934-1937 * , 1937 * Taras Mitulynsky, 1937 (acting head of city council) * , 1937-1938 (acting) * , 1938-1941

Reichskommissariat Ukraine (
burgomaster Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister, ) is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or executive of a city or town. The name in English was derived from the Dutch . In so ...
s)

Oleksander Ohloblyn Oleksander Petrovych Ohloblyn (; 6 December 1899 – 16 February 1992) was a Ukrainian politician and historian who served as mayor of Kyiv while it was under the occupation of Nazi Germany in 1941. He was one of the most important Ukrainian � ...

, 1941 *

Volodymyr Bahaziy Volodymyr Panteleimonovych Bahaziy (; 1902 – 21 February 1942) was a Ukrainian nationalist affiliated with Andriy Melnyk who was head of Kyiv City Administration under German occupation from October 1941 to February 1942. Biography Born i ...

, 1941-1942 * , 1942-1943

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

* , 1943-1944 * , 1944-1946 * , 1946-1947 * , 1947-1963 * , 1963-1968 * Volodymyr Gusev, 1968-1979 * Valentyn Zghursky, 1979-1990 * Mykola Lavrukhin, 1990 * , 1990-1991

Ukraine

* Hryhoriy Malyshevsky, 1991 * Oleksandr Mosiyuk, 1991-1992 (acting) * Ivan Dankevych, 1992 (acting) * Vasyl Nesterenko, 1992-1994 (head of city council) * Leonid Kosakivsky, 1994-1998 (head of city council, in 1997-1998 - mayor) *

Oleksandr Omelchenko Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Omelchenko (; 9 August 1938 – 25 November 2021) was a Ukrainian politician. He served as the Mayor of Kyiv from 1999 to 2006. Omelchenko was also a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2007 to 2012. Omelchenko was the P ...

, 1998-2006 (head of city council in 1998-1999, mayor since 1999) *

Leonid Chernovetskyi Leonid Mykhaylovych Chernovetskyi (; born 25 November 1951) is a former Mayor of Kyiv, the capital (city), capital of Ukraine, from 2006 until the summer of 2012. He was a successful businessman, founder and controlling stakeholder of the Pravex ...

, 2006-2012 *

Halyna Hereha Halyna Fedorivna Hereha (; born 9 August 1959) is a Ukrainian businesswoman and politician who served as acting mayor of Kyiv from 2012 to 2014. Hereha also was a Deputy Mayor and Secretary of the Kyiv City Council from 20 April 2011 to 5 June 2 ...

, 2012-2014 (acting) *

Vitali Klitschko Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko (; ; born 19 July 1971), known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. He serves as mayor of Kyiv,Mayor of Kyiv The Head of Kyiv City (), unofficially and more commonly the Mayor of Kyiv (), is a city official elected by popular vote who serves as a head of the Kyiv city state administration (the capital of Ukraine) and a chairperson the Kyiv City Counc ...

Kyiv City Council Kyiv City Council (, ), also known as Kyivrada (), is the city council of Kyiv municipality, the highest representative body of the city community. The members of city council are directly elected by Kyivans and the council is chaired by the M ...

* Kyiv City Administration *

Timeline of Kyiv The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the ...

History of Kyiv In the 1970s, the city was officially designated to have been founded in 482, and thus its 1500th anniversity was celebrated in 1982, but depending on various criteria, the city or settlement may date back at least 2,000 years. Archaeologists ha ...

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Wójt A wójt is the highest administrative officer of a Polish ''rural gmina'', i.e., of a commune (''gmina'') comprising only villages. (The head of a town or city is called, respectively, the ''burmistrz'' or "president".) History and etymology T ... (head of city government)

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...

Kingdom of Poland The Kingdom of Poland (; Latin: ''Regnum Poloniae'') was a monarchy in Central Europe during the Middle Ages, medieval period from 1025 until 1385. Background The West Slavs, West Slavic tribe of Polans (western), Polans who lived in what i ...

Cossack Hetmanate The Cossack Hetmanate (; Cossack Hetmanate#Name, see other names), officially the Zaporozhian Host (; ), was a Ukrainian Cossacks, Cossack state. Its territory was located mostly in central Ukraine, as well as in parts of Belarus and southwest ...

Russian Empire (as part of Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–19 ...)

Mayors (heads of the city)

Russian Empire

Ukrainian People's Republic

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Reichskommissariat Ukraine (burgomaster Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister, ) is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or executive of a city or town. The name in English was derived from the Dutch . In so ...s)

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Ukraine

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Wójt A wójt is the highest administrative officer of a Polish ''rural gmina'', i.e., of a commune (''gmina'') comprising only villages. (The head of a town or city is called, respectively, the ''burmistrz'' or "president".) History and etymology T ...
(head of city government)

Russian Empire (as part of
Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–19 ...
)

Reichskommissariat Ukraine (
burgomaster Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister, ) is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or executive of a city or town. The name in English was derived from the Dutch . In so ...
s)