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 (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 Ritter von 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, 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 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-
Gallery Mayors during Austrian period
Ukrainian mayors of Chernivtsi
See also Chernivtsi history History of Chernivtsi (in Ukrainian)
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