The chairperson of the Sevastopol City State Administration () is the head of the executive branch of

Sevastopol Sevastopol ( ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea. Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base th ...

city. Informally, it is referred to as governor of Sevastopol. In Ukraine, the office is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the

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on recommendation from the

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. According to the

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, the chairperson should resign after a new president is elected.City Champion. How Klitschko kept Kyiv

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(30 January 2020) Since the

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and Russian occupation of Sevastopol, Ukrainian authorities have been unable to appoint a new chairperson. The official residenc is located in

. The post was first created in 1992 as the presidential representative in Sevastopol with Ivan Yermakov appointed as the first officeholder. Yermakov previously headed the city's council and its executive committee. The post of Sevastopol city governor historically existed in the city during the

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from 1872 to 1920. During the Soviet period, the city was governed by the First Secretary of the city's committee of the Communist Party, which was dissolved in Ukraine due to the 1991

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. After the

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and annexation of Crimea, the post was abolished by Sevastopol's facto Russian authorities. The last appointed head of the Sevastopol City State Administration was

Volodymyr Yatsuba Volodymyr Hryhorovych Yatsuba (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Володимир Григорович Яцуба; born 1 July 1947) is a Ukrainian politician who served as Governor of Sevastopol from 2011 to 2014./(website has automatic Google Tr ...

, who resigned in 2014.

Governors

Executive committee chairperson

* 1954–1957:

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* 1957–1963: ''unknown'' * 1963–1973: Pavlo Stenkovyi * 1973–1979:

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* 1979–1989: Yevgeniy Generalov * 1990–1991: Arkadiy Shestakov * 1991–1992: Ivan Yermakov

Presidential representative

* 1992–1994: Ivan Yermakov * 1994: Mykola Hlushko (acting January–April) * 1994–1995: ''vacant''

Administration chairperson

* 1995–1998: Viktor Semenov * 1998–1999: Borys Kucher * 1999–2005: Leonid Zhunko * 2005–2006: Serhiy Ivanov * 2006–2010: Serhiy Kunitsyn * 2010–2011: Valeriy Saratov * 2011–2014:

*2014:

Fedir Rubanov Fedir Fedorovych Rubanov ( Ukrainian: Федір Федорович Рубанов; born on 14 March 1971), is a Ukrainian politician who had served as the acting Head of Sevastopol in 2014. He is a member of the Party of Regions. Biography ...

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