Zakarpattia Oblast, also referred to as simply Zakarpattia or Transcarpathia in English, is an oblast located in the Carpathian Mountains in west Ukraine, mostly coterminous with the historical region of Carpathian Ruthenia. Its administrative centre is the city of Uzhhorod. Other major cities within the oblast include Mukachevo, Khust, Berehove, and Chop, the last of which is home to railroad transport infrastructure.
Snap mayoral and city council elections were held in Kyiv on 25 May 2008. The election, originally scheduled to be held alongside nationwide 2010 local elections, was called by the Verkhovna Rada by a 246–5 vote on March 18 amid corruption allegations involving the incumbent Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi. The local election determined the new Mayor of Kyiv, as well as the composition of the 120-seat Kyiv City Council.
The Ternopil Oblast local election, 2009 elections in the Ternopil Oblast regional council, were held on March 15, 2009 on December 18, 2008, by the Ukrainian Parliament initiated by Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) but cancelled on 3 March 2009 by the same Parliament, with most members of BYuT voting against holding the snap elections. Following a lawsuit filed by Svoboda the Ternopil oblast` court acknowledged this decision illegal on March 11, 2009. The next day BYuT lodged an appeal in the Lviv Administrative Appeal Court against this decision.
Serhiy Mykolayovych Ratushnyak is a former long-term Mayor of Uzhhorod, former People's Deputy of Ukraine and he was a self-nominated candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election. During the election Ratushnyak received 0.12% of the votes.
Viktor Ivanovych Baloha is a Ukrainian politician and the former emergency situations minister.
For the Future is a political party in Ukraine directly supported by the oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi. The party was originally registered in July 2008 as Ukraine of the Future. During the 2010 local elections, the party only took part in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, but it participates nationwide since the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
Our Land is a banned political party in Ukraine, founded on 23 August 2011, under the name "Bloc Party". In 2014, it was renamed as "Our Land". In the October 2015 Ukrainian local elections the party took third place with 4,375 seats and 156 seats as mayors, heads of towns and villages. In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections the party gained 1,694 seats.
Serhiy Vitaliiovych Nadal is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Ternopil and head of Ternopil urban hromada in western Ukraine. A member of the Svoboda party, Nadal has been mayor since 2010. Nadal's 2010 election was the first mayoral election won by Svoboda.
Football Club Uzhhorod is a Ukrainian professional football club from Uzhhorod previously competing in the regional competitions of Zakarpattia Oblast and Ukrainian amateur competitions. Reactivated in 2024, FC Uzhhorod was reestablished on FC FCI Uzhhorod.
Vladislav Mykolaiovych Poliak is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 9th convocation.
Vasyl Pynyashko is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who plays with the FC Dynamo Toronto.
Robert Ivanovych Horvat is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 68th electoral district since 2014. A member of Dovira, Horvat is chairman of the Subcommittee on Legal Support of Customs Bodies of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax, and Customs Policy. He is also co-chair of the group for inter-parliamentary relations with the Czech Republic and head of the group for inter-parliamentary relations with Egypt.
The Volodymyr Saldo Bloc was a minor regionalist political party in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine headed by Volodymyr Saldo. The party was founded in 2019 and won 5 seats in the Kherson Oblast Council in the 2020 local elections, while Saldo finished second in the mayoral election.
Oleh Ivanovych Kulinich is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament), having previously served in the seventh and eighth convocations. He was head of the Dovira group in the Verkhovna Rada. He was arrested in July 2022 and charged with high treason.
Viktor Fedorovych Mykyta is a Ukrainian figure, politician, and the head of the Zakarpattia Oblast State Administration since 10 December 2021. He also serves as the Chairman of the Chamber of Regions of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President of Ukraine, and the head of the Zakarpattia Oblast organization of the political party "Servant of the People."
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Ledyda is a Ukrainian politician who served as the 10th Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast from 2010 to 2014.
Oleksandr Vasyliovych Kapush was a Ukrainian military officer, a senior soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a member of the Russian-Ukrainian war; Hero of Ukraine.
Kyryll Oleksandrovych Nesterenko is a Ukrainian badminton player and sports official, public figure, civil servant, and politician. He is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the 9th convocation.
Esen, formerly known as Yavorove is village in Chop urban hromada of Uzhhorod Raion (district) of Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in Western Ukraine.
Solovka is village in Chop urban hromada of Uzhhorod Raion (district) of Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in Western Ukraine.
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