The history of Kharkiv lasts more than three and a half ages, which are extremely filled with epoch-making events and dates of memory. All of them are reflected in the chronics of the local government as in a mirror. The stages, marked with the rapid development, growing, victories or, vice versa, tragic pages – all of them are impossible to be learnt, understood and analyzed without knowing anything about those who were on the head of the city in certain historical moments. Practically each of the leaders of local government had made his own contribution into Kharkiv development and defined the future of the city in a certain way.
Gukovskiy Pavel 1767-1768 He figured in history as the first Kharkiv mayor. This man was native of Slobodsky Ukrainian Cossack higher circles by origin, retired centurion. He used to be an assistant of centurion before his nomination; also he was responsible for the fire fighting in the city. He used to own a pub. His post was rather nominative and he did not have any particular functions.
A
fanasiev Fyodor 1768-1778 Junior warrant officer. He occupied the post of the city mayor for rather a long term (10 years). He had been elected as a head of local government twice (in 1768 and 1771). For the first time he relieved his predecessor on the temporary post, for the second time he was elected on the settled term. There is no information saved about his activity.
Artyuhov Petr Ivanovich 1779-1784 He used to be an official both of local government of Slobodsky Cossack regiments and the bodies of local government after Slobojhanshchina autonomy liquidation. After the end of his term as a mayor he possessed important posts in the bodies of local government (burgomaster, assessor of the governorate magistrate).
Karpov Artemiy 1784-1789 He used to occupy the post of the mayor during two three years long elective terms. He belonged to the higher circles of Kharkiv merchantry (a merchant of the 2nd guildship). He protected the interests of the city facing any power in a successive and strict way. He had conflicts with the governorate magistrate, had a trial with it and won the case. In 1787 on the head of delegation of kharkovites he greeted Ekaterina II during her visit to Kharkiv.
Pavlov Alexander 1790-1791 One of the few representatives of aristocracy, not the merchantry, in the management of the local government before the reform of 1870. He was a collegiate registrar. Since his term of governing the government input reference “You” (In Russian – plural, respectful) to the mayor into constant usage. There is no more detailed information about his activity.
Tambovtsev Aleksey 1791-1793 The merchant. He occupied the posts of the city burgomaster, the warden of compiling the book of inhabitants of the city. He was not active at those posts and demonstrated his constant unwillingness to be involved into the citizen elective activity. In a month after occupying the post of the warden he even asked for retire and he was excluded of the city community for this act.
Anikeyev Andrey 1793-1796; 1805-1808 Belonged to the merchantry (the 2nd guildship with a capital 5045 rub.). He protected the interests of the merchantry actively. For example, he was one of the initiators of the application of Kharkiv merchants in order to prohibit commoners to have any trade in the city. For the second time he occupied the post of the mayor in 1805-1808. There is no more detailed information about his activity
Butenkov (Butenko) Mikhail 1796-1799 The Kharkiv merchant. He took an active part in the activity of the local government. He occupied the posts of a ratman of the first Kharkiv magistrate, the city warden. He was honored with a title of an eminent citizen of the city (1793). After his retire of the post of the mayor he owned a pub. There is no more detailed information of his biography and activity.
Uryupin Yegor Yegorovych 1799-1805 The merchant. He occupied high positions in the system of the local government. He made a great contribution into the foundation of the Kharkiv University. He was firm in the questions of law and had frequent conflicts with governors. In 1803 he was enforced to the nuttery. But he was able to protect his rights when he gave the petition to the monarch and gained the governor retire.
Karpov Fedot Dorofeyevich 1808-1811 An Old Believer. One of the biggest owners and landlords of Kharkov, owned a factory and shops in the center of the city. The ancestor of a famous merchant kin. He settled retired soldiers on his earth grounds. The soldiers were called “moskals”, and later this district of Kharkov appropriated the name “Moskalyovka”, and this district still has this name.
Lamakin Vasiliy Mikhayllovich 1811-1823 A rich Kharkov merchant. He had been elected a mayor for four times. During his cadence the management of the city aimed to put the finances into order by increasing incomes and decreasing expenses. He was loyal to the governor administration. A great patron of art. He organized a huge money collection for benefit of the army needs in the municipal duma.
Krivorotov Grigoriy 1823-1828 The representative of the merchantry, the same as his predecessor, in Kharkiv local government. In 1807 he was the only merchant in the city of the 1st guildship with a capital of 16 600 rubles, though, in the 40-s of the XIX century he was sighed into the 3rd guildship. There is no information of his activity as a mayor.
Motuzkov Anton 1829-1834 He was a head of a Kharkov local government twice. He actively fought with the epidemics of cholera of 1830-1831. He sacrificed a great sum of money for the needs of a hospital for people with cholera. During the second term of A. Motuzkov Kharkiv bought an earth ground where the central market (it is called Blagoveshchenskiy now) is located.
Kuzin Kuzma Nikitich 1835 A merchant of the 1st guildship, sold vodka and wines. He owned gold saves in Siberia. One of the greatest owners of real estate in Kharkiv. An active benefactor, he built a church on Kholodnaya Gora on his own means. He was the first of kharkovites who had been honored with the honorable title of a commercial councilor. An honorable citizen of the city.
Kovalyov Dmitriy 1835-1837 A merchant of the 3rd guildship. He used to be a member of the city council before he had been elected the mayor. He “inherited” the post after the freewill retire of his predecessor. He occupied the post during two years. There is no more detailed information about his activity.
Karpov Sergey Fedotovich 1838 A son of F. D. Karpov, the mayor of Kharkov. He learned accounting in Danzig and was one of the most educated entrepreneurs of the city. After his father’s death he became the richest merchant, the biggest owner of real estate and enterprises. He founded one of the first textile manufactures in Kharkiv. An honorable citizen. He refused the post of the mayor soon after his election.
Bazilevskiy Fedor Vasilyevich 1838-1839 A merchant of the 3rd guildship. He headed the local government after his predecessor’s refuse of the post, because he was the second on the elections. In a year he had written a petition about his retire because of health reasons and the need to concentrate on his own business after his son’s death. There is no information about his activity.
Klimov Andrey Pavlovich 1839-1840 A merchant of the 3rd guildship. He had got the post from his predecessors S. F. Karpov and F. V. Bazilevskiy. The same as the named predecessors he did not put enough attention to his activity on the post of mayor. The elder burgomaster P. D. Granovskiy ruled the Kharkiv local government.
Kotlyarov Mikhail Petrovich 1841; 1846-1847 A merchant of the 3rd guildship. An Art patron. He is famous by the fact that he kept low prices in the times of crop failure. He was honored by the gratitude of the Empress Maria Fedorovna, gratitude of Kharkiv military and civil governors, the title of the honorable citizen and “the monarchial benevolence’ of Nikolay I. He retired of his free will.
Grinchenkov (Grinchenko) Gavriil Denisovich 1841-1843 A merchant, an entrepreneur. He was chosen to the post by “the city comradeship” in 1841. During his term, according to the estimation of D. M. Bagaley and D.P. Miller, “… the city economy was so much declined that the governor’s administration paid attention to it and the governor made an order to start a special investigation of that matter”.
Rudakov Fedor Mikhaylovich 1844-1846 A merchant of the 3rd guildship. In 1841 he was a temporary deputy of G.D.Grinchenkov during his disease. In 1844 he was elected on the post of the mayor. Though the activity of F. M. Rudakov was not estimated by the historians in such a negative way as his predecessor’s, Kharkiv local government did not reach any considerable success in the development of the city economy.
Ryzjov Ivan Ivanovich 1847-1849 A merchant, an owner of the plant. One of the most effective Art patrons and benefactors. A patron of Uspenskiy cathedral. Honored by the blessing of the Holy Governing Synod, the golden medal “For the good deeds for the benefit of Motherland”. He was elected on the post of the mayor twice; at first he refused the post.
Rudakov Aleksey Mikhaylovich 1850-1852 A rich merchant. Activity of the local government was successful during his term, disposable capital of the municipal; council increased. He had some conflicts with a governor general. He had been removed from the post and re-established then. He was removed from the post again and sent to Ufa. After the exile he got back to his public activity and became a member of the first Kharkiv city council after the reform.
Kostyurin Sergey Kondratyevich 1853-1858 A merchant, wine trading. A benefactor honored by different awards. He was in governor’s administration favour. He built a building for the first city initial school on his own costs. S.K. Kostyrin was rather a picturesque figure and he was a prototype for the characters of many plays by N.A.Ostrovskiy.
Syevierin Alexander Matveyevich 1859-1861 A merchant of the 2nd guildship, he sold metal goods and haberdashery. He worked in the bodies of local government actively, was an elder member of Kharkiv municipal council, was a temporary deputy of the mayor several times (for 7 months in whole), then he occupied that post constantly. He was praised with three golden medals
Skrynnik Aleksey Alexandrovich 1862-1867 A merchant of the 1st guildship. An inherited honored citizen. He was chosen on the post of the mayor twice. He worked actively at the creation of Kharkiv financial structures. He was an initiator of creation of the first city merchant bank in Ukraine, which became an example of municipal business activity later.
Shatunov Nikolay Dmitriyevich 1867-1870 A merchant of the 2nd guildship. One of the youngest mayors (32 years old) in the history of Kharkiv before revolution. There had been Aleksandrovsky hospital opening among his achievements where representatives of wide circles of society could get medical help of all kinds and which had been the biggest medical institution of Kharkiv before 1917.
Gordiyenko Yegor Stepanovich 1871-1873 Professor, Doctor of Medicine. A great public and political personality. He retired of the post of the mayor because of health reasons. He was a person of progressive mind, he always protected principles of openness and democracy, advocated open legal proceedings, took an active part in acquitting peasants of serfage.
Chepelkin Aleksey Dmitriyevich 1874-1875 An honorable citizen, member of Kharkiv municipal counsil of the first calls. An honorable justice of peace, a head of justice of peace congress. After his predecessor had retired he occupied the post of the mayor till the end of the term of authority of the bodies of Kharkov local government of 1871-1875 calling. There is no any information of his activity.
Kovalyov Aleksandr Evgenyevich 1875-1884A representative of aristocracy. Graduated Kharkiv university. After his careeer of an official had been finished he worked as a justice of peace. He was famous as a fair and unprejudiced person. He was chosen to the municipal council when the local government of all the states had been provided. He had been elected the mayor for three times. He earned a great authority and respect in the city.
Fesenko Ivan Iosifovich 1884-1891 An inherited nobleman. He was elected as the mayor after the death of A.E. Kovalyov. The term of I.I. Fesenko on the post passed during a period of deep reaction. There may be noticed territorial expansion of the city among his achievements. He paid a great attention to the problems of education, culture and arts, was a patron of theatre.
Shchelkov Vladimir Petrovich 1892-1893 He came of a merchant family. He founded one of the first notaries in the city. During his term the work of the municipal council was hardened by a huge flood, camp fever epidemy and problems in the relationship with the governor office. According to the new municipal regulations the term of empowerment of the bodies of local government was over ahead of time in 1983.
Golenishchev-Kutuzov Ivan Timofeyevich 1893-1900 A founder of big banks, team-mate of A.K. Alchevskiy. The municipal finances were stabilized, the first municipal obligation was issued, a certain progress in provision of urban amenities was achieved during his term. He organized creation of profitable muniicpal enterprises (power station and slaughters). He helped a lot in founding of locomotive building plant.
Pogoryelko Aleksander Konstantinovich 1900-1912 A scientist, a public person. He had made a great contribution into creating the municipal electric lighting. He protected the principals of local government, limitation of administrative interruption, democratization. A complex programme of provision of urban amenities and development of Kharkiv according to the Western Europe examples was worked out under his auspices.
Budberg Roman Yuliyevich 1913 (January - February) A nobleman. He played a noticeable part in public life of the city and the province. He was a head of Kharkiv society of literacy expansion, a member of the city executive province council. He was elected on the post by the decision of a “progressive” city council. He refused the post in a sign of protest of demonstrative disregard from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Dorofeyev Nikolay Yevdokimovich 1913-1914 A lecturer of the university. He belonged to the liberal democratic wing of the city council. He actually ruled the city local government since 1912 because of disease of A.K. Pogoryelko. Then he was a temporary deputy and “a deputy on the post” of the mayor. Then he occupied the post of the deputy of the mayor till the Fabruary revolution of 1917.
Bich-Lubenskiy Ivan Mikhaylovich 1914 (September - Octouber) A nobleman. He was one of the leaders of the right wing of the municipal council and one of the most militant reactioners in the local government line-up. He was proposed on the post of the mayor from the Conservative Monarchic Party twice. He was elected on the 18th of September of 1914 but refused the post before the Minister’s Of internal Affairs approval.
Bagaley Dmitriy Ivanovich 1914-1917 One of the brightest figures in Kharkiv history. A famouse scientist and public person. He was a convinced fancier of Ukrainian culture. He protected a necessity of democratization of public and political life in Russia. He occupied the post of mayor in deeply unprofitable conditions of the World War I (economical and provision crisis, epidemics etc.)
Stefanovich Sergey Grigorievich 1917-1918 In 1917 the Social Revolutionary Party won the majority at the first democratic election in Kharkiv and S.G. Stefanovich as an active member of the party became the mayor. Soon he was removed from the post by the municipal council created by bolshevics. After the end of Soviet Power activity in the city he aheaded the local government again.
Aga-Bekov V. A. 1918-1919 One of the most active persons of Kharkiv organization of the right socialists revolutioners. A member of Kharkiv municipal council. In December of 1918 he became a candidate to the executive body of the council from the Social Revolutionary Party. On the 19th of 1918 he was elected the mayor and occupied the post till the beginning of 1919. There is no information of his activity as a mayor.
Saltykov Nikolay Nikolayevich 1919 A professor, a disciple of the mathematician A.P. Lyapunov. An active member of the Constitution Democratic Party. He was elected on the post of the mayor after the Volunteer Army delivered Kharkiv from bolshevics in June of 1919 and stopped his activity on the post when the Soviet Power was renewed. He supported the White movement and he personally met A.I. Denikin with bread and salt.
Lazko Mikhail Nikolayevich 1917 (March) A revolutioner. A member of RSDWP. After the fall of Caesarism he was elected to the first line-up of Kharkiv council of workers deputies, then aheaded the council. Later after the council of workers deputies and the council of soldiers deputies had been united, M.N. Lazko was a deputy of the head of the united council. There is no more information of his activity.
Svyetlov Ivan Ivanovich 1917 (March - August) The second head of the united Kharkiv Council of Workers and Soldiers Deputys. A revolutioner. He was a member of Kharkiv Council of Soldiers Deputys, in March of 1917 he was elected a head of Presidium of the executive committee of Kharkiv United Council, and in August he refused his post for benefit of bolshevic P.A. Kin and became his deputy.
Kin Pavel Andreyevich 1917 (August – November); 1919 (Fabruary - April) A revolutioner. He aheaded the executive committee of Kharkiv Council of Workers and Soldiers Deputys (1917). He was a head of Kharkiv revolutionary committee and he had become a commandant of Kharkiv twice (1918 and 1919). During the Civil War he had been leaving Kharkiv twice and had come back again. In February of 1919 he was elected a head of the executive committee of Kharkiv province council.
Artem (Sergeyev) Fedor Andreyevich 1917 (November) A professional revolutioner, a leader of the armed revolt in Kharkiv (1906). He took part in overthrow of the temporary government in Petrograd. In November of 1917 he was elected a head of Kharkiv district executive committee of workers, peasants and Red Army soldiers deputies council, which placed the Soviet Power in Kharkiv.
Buzdalin Sergey Feoktistovich 1917-1918; 1927-1928 A revolutioner. In July of 1917 he became a member of the municipal council from Kharkiv committee of the bolshevics party. After the bolshevics had got power he aheaded the executive committee of the council. From April 1927 to December of 1928 he was a head of Kharkiv district executive committee of workers, peasants and Red Army soldiers deputies council.
Gulyi Konstantin Makarovich 1918; 1921-1922 After the February revolution he organized troops of the Red Army. In 1918 he was a head of Kharkiv city council. During the period of the German and Austrian occupation he organized the biggest strike of railway workers. In December of 1921 he occupied the post of a head of workers, peasants and Red Army soldiers deputies council.
Tishkov Semen Yakovlevich 1919 (January - February)An Active revolutioner. He had been left in Kharkiv for underground work before the period of governing of getman P.P. Skoropadskiy. Then, after the city had been occupied by the Red Army again (January of 1919) he was elected a head of presidium of the executive committee of Kharkiv council of workers deputies. There is no detailed information of his activity.
Ivanov Aleksey Nikolayevich 1920 (January - April) A revolutioner. A member of the municipal council from RSDWP (b). One of the organizers of the Red Army in Kharkiv. In 1920 he was called out of the Red Army for Soviet work and elected a head of Kharkiv province execitive committee. A member of CC CP(b)U. There is no information of his activity.
Volin (Fradkin) Boris Mikhaylovich 1920 (June - Octouber) A bolshevic, a participant of three revolutions, a member of the editorial board of “Pravda” newspaper. In May of 1920 he was elected a head of Kharkiv province council of workers, peasants and Red Army soldiers deputies. From June to October of 1920 he aheaded Kharkiv city council at the same time. There is no detailed information of his activity.
Ivanov Andrey Vasilyevich 1920 (November - December) A revolutioner, one of the leaders of the armed revolt of 1918 in Kiev against the Central Rada. On the 2nd of November of 1920 he was elected a head of Kharkiv city council and in a day a head of Kharkiv province executive committee. In a month he was fired because of health reasons. There is no information of his activity
Avyerin Vasiliy Kuzmich 1921 (January - July)
A participant of the revolution of 1905, bolshevic. He occupied different posts, among the range of them he used to be a member of “the five” who created the All-Russian Extraordinary Comission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Speculation and Sabotage in Petrograd. In December of 1920 he was appointed on the post of a head of Kharkiv province executive committee, in January of 1921 he became a head of Kharkiv city council of workers, peasants and the Red Army soldiers deputies.
Kuznetsov Stepan Matveyevich 1921; 1922-1923
In July of 1921 he was elected a head of Kharkiv province executive committee, at the same time he worked as a head of Kharkiv city council. The Soviet bodies of Kharkiv and the province renewed the economy ruined in the period of the Civil war and transferred it on the rails of plan economy under his auspices. He was fired from the post because of his transferring to another post.
Fedotov Konstantin Yakovlevich 1923-1925
A revolutioner. Since June of 1920 he had been a member of Kharkiv province executive committee, a province military commissar and a head of arms of Kharkiv province. In October of 1923 he occupied a post of a head of the executive committee of Kharkiv province council. He managed the work of it till October of 1925. There is no information of his activity.
Chernuha Aleksey Danilovich 1925 (June - October)
A bolshevic. In 1917 he joined RSDWP(b), was a member of Ivano-Lysogorskiy district revolutionary committee of Kharkiv. Than he was elected a member of Kharkiv city council from carriage shops (1923). He aheaded the work of the city council being a secretary of it. There is no detailed information of his activity.
Gavrilin Ivan Dmitriyevich 1926-1927
A participant of the revolutionary events of 1905-1907 in Kharkiv. He served in the Red Army, then occupied different party and Soviet posts, among them he used to be a secretary of Petinskiy and Krasnobavarskiy district committee. He had aheaded the Kharkiv district executive committee (1925 and 1926). He used to be a head of Kharkiv city council less than a year. There is no information of his activity.
Kozjhuhov Ivan Hristanovich 1927-1929
He made a career in the Red Army from a soldier to a division commissar. After the Civil War he came back to Kharkiv. He was proposed on the post of a responsible secretary of Chervonozavodskiy district committee of CP(b)U, elected to the city council. He aheaded the city council in March of 1927, but in the beginning of 1929 he was fired because of transferring to another post.
Boroday Grigoriy Mikhailovich 1929-1930
He served in the Red Army, was a member of Kharkiv council. He was a deputy of Kharkiv city council, a member of a section of external provision of urban amenities (1924-1926). In January of 1929 he was elected on the post of the head of the city council aacording to the recommendation of the buroue of the district committee of CP(b)U, he managed the city council till September of 1930. There is no information of his activity
Sidorov Aleksander Andreyevich 1930-1932
After his demobilization of the Red Army in 1921 he worked in the province executive committee, for several times he had been a deputy of the city council. He occupied different party and Soviet posts, in 1930 he was elected on the post of the head of Kharkiv city council. In 1932 he was transferred to the post of the deputy of the People commissar of provision of USSR. There is no information of his activity.
Kuzoyatov Fedor Petrovich 1932-1933
He was transferred to Kharkiv in 1931. He occupied the post of the deputy of the head of Kharkiv city council, a head of Region Financial Department. On the 18th of September of 1932 he was chosen on the post of the head of Kharkiv city council. He had been occupying the post for five months, later he became a deputy of I.S. Shelehes. There is no detailed information of his activity.
Shelehes Ilya Saveliyevich 1933-1934
A professional revolutioner, a bolshevic. He took part in the Civil War. He occupied high positions in different regions of USSR. After coming to Ukraine in 1933 he became a head of Kharkiv region executive committee and the city council. He aheaded bodies of the Soviet power of Kharkiv region in the period of tragic events of Golodomor of 1933.
Saratikov Samuil Bezjhanovich 1934-1935
He occupied leading posts in Kharkiv region health department, the city health department, district health department. He was a deputy of Kharkiv city council, in 1934 he aheaded a city council in Sumy. In 1934 he came back to Kharkiv where he occupied the post of the deputy and then the head of the city council. In August 1935 he was taken out of the line-up of the buroue of the city committee of the party and then he was fired from the post he occupied.
Bogutskiy Vladimir Nikiforovich 1935-1937
A deputy of the head of Kharkiv region executive committee (1934), a member of a buroue of the regional committee of CP(b)U. He replaced S.B. Saratikov on the post of the head of the city council. In January of 1937 he was arrested as a leader of “anti-Soviet terroristic and committed to wrecking organization of the rights” . He was excluded of the city council by its plenary meeting as “an enemy of the party”. There is no information of his activity.
Gress Andrey Ivanovich 1937 (January - February)
A member of RCP(b), a delegate of the XII meeting of CP(b)U. Since 1936 he had occupied a position of a deputy of the head of the city council. He was a temporary substitute of the head of the city council after arrest of V.N. Bogutskiy. In a month he was fired of this post and transferred to the department of organizational work. Then he left the Soviet work production activity. There is no information of his activity on the post of the head of the city council.
Tkachenko Mark Kondratyevich 1937 (Fabruary - mayь; Septemberь - October)
During the Civil War he used to be in partisan troops. After the war he worked in militia, got a higher education, occupied different economy and Soviet positions. He was a member of presidium, the first deputy of the head of the city council. He had aheaded the council twice because of frequent changes in managing link. There is no other information of his activity.
Klochko Petr Sergeyevich 1937 (May - September)
After the Civil War he worked in the system of education, on trade union and Soviet positions in different regions of the USSR. He was transferred to the post of the head of Kharkiv city council in May of 1937 from the post of a secretary of Krasnobavarskiy district committee of CP(b)U of Kharkiv. But in September of 1937 he was arrested and excluded of the party as “an enemy of people”. There is no detailed information of his activity.
Bobrov Ivan Ivanovich 1937-1939
After the Civil War he studied at the Party School, graduated the Ukrainian Industry Academy. He occupied trade union and Soviet posts. He was a temporary deputy of the head of Kharkiv executive committee during the period of two years (1937-1939). In 1939 he was elected on the post of a deputy of Verkhovna Rada of UkSSR in Oktyabrsky elective district of Kharkiv.
Selivanov Alexander Ignatyevich 1940- 1941; 1943-1948
A deputy of Kharkiv city council, since January 1940 he was a head of the city Council. He had occupied the post till the beginning of German occupation. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic war he also ruled the levy en masse corps. In March of 1943 and then after the final deliverance of the city he headed Kharkiv city council again. He worked in extremely hard conditions of renewing of economy of the region.
Sachko Petr Petrovich 1948-1950
in 1940 Kharkiv city council elected P. P. Sachko the first deputy of the head of the executive committee. He worked on the post in 1940-1941 and from 1943. In February of 1948 he replaced A.G. Selivanov on the post of a head of the executive committee. He worked in extremely difficult conditions of war and after-war renewing of the city which was practically ruined.
Koptyev Anatoliy Afanasyevich 1950-1953
After the war he occupied different party posts, including the post of a deputy of an industrial department of the city committee of CP(b)U, deputy of a secretary of the city committee of aviation and local industry, the first secretary of Dzerzjhinskiy district committee of CP(b)U of Kharkiv. He was a deputy of Kharkiv region and city council. In 1950 he was elected the head of the executive committee.
Bulgakov Aleksander Aleksandrovich 1953 (March - November)
He occupied the posts of a secretary of the party committee of “Serp i Molot” plant (now – “Turboatom”). In 1950 he was elected the second secretary of the city party committee, in 1953 he was elected a head of Kharkiv executive committee. He occupied the post for rather a short term and was transferred to the region committee of the party.
Mikhailik Aleksey Fedoseyevich 1953-1960
He was a builder under education, before the war he had headed the city department of architecture and planning. After the war he came back to Kharkiv and was appointed a head of subdepartment and a director of the Institute of Engeneers of the Municipal Economy. A head of the executive committee of Kharkiv city council (1953-1960). The author of popular science works on Kharkiv history and architecture.
Fedorenko Konstantin Grigoryevich 1960-1961
He occupied managing posts on economy and teaching work. In 1956 he was elected a free secretary of the party organization. From March 1959 he was a deputy of the head and from February – the head of Kharkiv executive committee. Fired from the post on his own will because of health reasons.
Vlasenko Georgiy Yefimovich 1961-1969
He managed Kharkiv executive committee during 8 years. A lot of very important for Kharkiv infrastructure development projects had been started under his supervision, such as building of Selektsionnaya station, Pavlovo Polye, KTP, building of Saltovskiy living massive. In 1965 a decision on building Kharkiv metropolitan was approved.
Gurovoy Yuriy Andreyevich 1969-1976
He paid a special attention to development of transport scheme. The movement to Saltovskiy living massive was opened, Gagarina avenue was built, hospital complexes were eraised. Each year about 15-17 thousand m2 of living areas were put into exploitation, problems of settling out of inhabitants from barracks and cellars. A problem of a very little amount of kindergartens and hostels for higher educational institutions was solved.
Matyushenko Yuriy Yeliseyevich 1976-1980
He continued living and capital building actively. He paid a great attention to the engeneering neworks, the conducting of which had taken much longer time than building of living areas. The “ringing” of networks was proposed with the aim of solving this problem. The second turn of Kharkiv underground was put into exploitation and the building of TPP-5 was started during his term.
Vedernikov Valentin Vadimovich 1980-1984
During the term of V.V. Vedernikov a fast development of the city continued (about 800 thosand m2 of living areas were put into exploitation). Alekseyevka, Saltovka, Odesskaya district, Rogan living area were built really fast. The second turn of underground was put into exploitation. He had shown a special activity in solving the problem of costs for Kharkiv opera and ballet theatre building.
Obrevko Vladimir Vladimirovich 1984-1985
He used to be the head of department of industry and transport of the city executive committee (1975-1977), then he occupied the post of a deputy (1977), then he occupied the post of the head of the city executive committee (1984). He developed international contacts actively. He was a member of the delegation of the USSR at the Congress of Twin Cities in France in 1981. He took part in a work of the conference “The World Union of cities and victims of war of all the world” in 1985 in Italy.
Resnichenko Anatoliy Sergeyevich 1985 (October - December)
He graduated Kharkiv Politechnical Institute (1967), worked as a constructing engineer, was elected a secretary of the plant comsomol committee. He occupied different posts, including a post of the first secretary of Kharkiv city committee of LCUYU. In 1983-1985 he was elected a head of Dzerzjhinsliy district executive committee, in October of 1985 he was elected a head of Kharkiv ezecutive committee. He died on the 10th of December of 1985.
Sokolovskiy Stepan Nikolayevich 1986-1990
He continued living and capital building, finished the building of Kharkiv opera and ballet theatre, and cooperative movement was developing actively during his term. He paid a great attention to developing and strengthening of international contacts. Among others, in April of 1987 S.N. Sokolovskiy took part in the 14th meeting of the mayors of big cities in Milano.
Kushnaryov Yevgeniy Petrovich 1990-1996
He became the first mayor of Kharkiv elected in a democratic way. A natural-born leader, an active reformator, a politician of a state grade. A process of forming of democratic local government was started under his supervision. He became one of the authors of the Law of Ukraine “About local government”. He was a head of the municipal movement in the period when he occupied the post of the president of the Association of the cities of Ukraine. He paid a special attention to development of new market economics.
Pilipchuk Mikhail Dmitriyevich 1996-2002
During his term the Statut of the territoril community was approved, a tradition of honouring with a title “An Honourable Citizen of Kharkiv” was renewed, contracts of cooperation were signed with Moskva, Byelgorod and Kaunas and other cities. He made a great contribution into building of Olekseyevskaya line of the underground, building of the theatre named by A.S. Pushkin, reconstruction of the center of the city. In 1999 he was named the best mayor of Ukraine. An honourable citizen of Kharkiv.
Shumilkin Vladimir Andreyevich 2002-2006
He paid a special attention to the social politics, development of infrastructure of the city, made efforts to make Kharkiv an independent subject in the international area. He became a laureate of the Ukrainiane prize “Leaders of Regions” in nomination “The Mayor of the Year”.
Dobkin Mikhail Markovich 2006-2010
Under his supervision Kharkiv became a pioneer in conducting of a great amount of reforms, including reforms in housing services and utilities. Kharkiv became the first (and the only one) city in Ukraine which got all the honors of the Councile of Europe (2010). The right of receiving the matches of EURO-2012 became a serious achievement. He refused the post because of his appointing on the post of a head of Kharkiv region state administration.
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