Mayor of Chernivtsi


The following is a list of mayors of the city of Chernivtsi, Ukraine. 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, Alexander Beldowicz and the last city judge, Andreas Klug.

1832: Regulation of local government, creating a magistrate

Source:
  • Franz Lihotzky
  • Adalbert Suchanek
  • Josef Ortynski
  • Josef Lepszy
  • Julius Hubrich

1864: Czernowitz becomes a town with its own statute

Since 1918

Period of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic

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
  • Traian Popovici, 1941

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, 1994–2011
  • , 2014–2020
  • Roman Klichuk, 2020-