Governor of Kyiv Oblast


The chairman of the Kyiv Oblast State Administration or unofficially governor of Kyiv Oblast, is the chairman of the executive branch of Kyiv Oblast, a province in northern Ukraine. The official residence is located in the country's capital, Kyiv which is a city with special status, and not in the Oblast or governed by the Kyiv Oblast State Administration.

Authority

According to Chapter VI of the constitution, the office of governor is appointed by the president, on recommendation from the cabinet of ministers, to serve a four-year term of office. The oblast's council can express a motion of no confidence to the governor, after which the Ukrainian president will issue a "substantiated reply." However, if two-thirds of the oblast council's deputies pass a resolution of no confidence in the governor, the president must decide on the governor's resignation.
As part of the constitutional reform in Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko proposed abolishing the office of chairmen of the regional state administrations, and instead replacing them with the office of the Representative of the President of Ukraine which will be appointed in each of Ukraine's 24 oblasts. These representatives will have significantly less authority over the regions in which they serve, instead being appointed to oversee the authority and constitutionality of Ukraine's administrative units.

List of heads of Kyiv Oblast State Administration

Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, most of the authority in Kyiv Oblast belonged to the Kyiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The following is a full list of the leaders of Kyiv Oblast from 1932 until the present day.

Representative of the President