List of mayors of Kharkiv

Mayor of Kharkiv
Flag of the City of Kharkiv
Incumbent Ihor Terekhov since 17 December 2020
Seat	Kharkiv City Council
Appointer	Popular vote
Term length	5 years
Inaugural holder	Yevhen Kushnaryov
Formation	15 May 1990
Website	Website of the Kharkiv mayor

The following is a list of mayors of the city of Kharkiv , Ukraine. It includes positions equivalent to mayor, such as chairperson of the Kharkiv City Council's executive committee.

Mayors

Before 1918

No.	Image	Name	In office
1		Hukovsky Pavlo	1767 — 1768
2		Afanasyev Fedor	1768 — 1778
3		Artyukhov Petro Ivanovych	1778 — 1784
4		Karpov Artemiy	1784 — 1789
5		Pavlov Alexander	1790 — 1791
6		Tambovtsev Alexei	1791 — 1793
7		Anikeev Andrey	1793 — 1796
8		Butenko (Butenkov) Mykhailo	1796 — 1799
9		Uryupin Yegor Egorovich	1799 — 1805
10		Anikeev Andrey	1805 — 1808
11		Karpov Fedot Dorofiyovych	1808 — 1811
12		Lamakin Vasyl Mykhailovych	1811 — 1823
13		Krivorotov Grigory	1823 — 1828
14		Motuzkov Anton	1829 — 1834
15		Kovalev Dmitry	1834 — 1837
16		Karpov Serhiy Fedotovych	1838
17		Fedor Vasilyevich Bazylevsky	1838 — 1839
18		Klimov Andrey Pavlovich	1839 — 1840
19		Mikhail Petrovich Kotlyarov	1841
20		Grinchenko (Grinchenkov) Gabriel	1841 — 1843
21		Rudakov Fedor Mikhailovich	1844 — 1846
22		Kotlyarov Mikhail Petrovich	1846 — 1847
23		Ryzhov Ivan Ivanovich	1847 — 1849
24		Rudakov Alexei Mikhailovich	1850 — 1852
25		Kostyurin Serhiy Kindratovych	1852 — 1858
26		Severin Alexander Matviyovych	1859 — 1861
27		Skrynnyk Oleksiy Oleksandrovych	1861 — 1867
28		Shatunov Mykola Dmytrovych	1867 — 1870
29		Gordienko Yegor Stepanovych	1871 — 1873
30		Chepelkin Alexei Dmitrievich	1874 — 1875
31		Kovalev Alexander Yevgenyevich	1875 — 1884
32		Fesenko Ivan Yosypovych	1884 — 1891
33		Shchelkov Vladimir Petrovich	1892 — 1893
34		Ivan Golenishchev-Kutuzov	1893 — 1900
35		Pogorilko Alexander Konstantinovich  [ uk ]	1900 — 1912
36		Budberg Roman Yuliyovych	1913
37		Dorofeev Mykola Yevdokymovych	1913 — 1914
38		Ivan Mykhailovych Bych-Lubensky  [ uk ]	1914
39		Dmytro Bahalii	1914 — 1917
40		Stefanovych Serhiy Hryhorovych	1917 — 1918

As part of the independent Ukrainian state, 1918

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Political party
1		Stefanovych Serhiy Hryhorovych	1917	1918	Socialist Revolutionary Party
2		Aga-Bekov V.A.	19 December 1918	1919

Under the control of the Armed Forces of South Russia, 1919

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Political party
1		Saltykov Nikolai Nikolaevich  [ uk ]	October 1919	December 1919	Constitutional Democratic Party

Soviet period (1917 — 1991)

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Political party
1		Lazko Mykhailo Mykolayovych	1917	1917	Communist Party
2		Svetlov Ivan Ivanovich	1917	1917
3		Kin Pavlo Andriyovych  [ uk ]	1917	1919
4		Fyodor Sergeyev (Artyom)	1917	1917
5		Buzdalin Serhiy Feoktistovych  [ uk ]	1917	1918
6		Guly Kostiantyn Makarovych  [ uk ]	1918	1918
7		Tyshkov Semyon Yakovlevich	1919	1919
8		Ivanov Alexei Nikolaevich  [ uk ]	1920	1920
9		Boris Volin	1920	1920
10		Andriy Ivanov	1920	1920
11		Vasiliy Averin	1921	1921
12		Kuznetsov Stepan Matviyovych	1921	1923
13		Fedotov Konstantin Yakovlevich  [ uk ]	1923	1925
14		Chernukha Oleksiy Danylovych	1925	1925
15		Gavrilin Ivan Dmytrovych	1926	1927
16		Kozhukhov Ivan Krystanovych	1927	1929
17		Borodai Hryhoriy Mykhailovych	1929	1930
18		Sidorov Alexander Andreevich	1930	1932
19		Kuzoyatov Fedor Petrovich	1932	1933
20		Shelehes Ilya Saveliyovych  [ uk ]	1933	1934
21		Saratykov Samuil Bezhanovich	1934	1935
22		Bogutsky Volodymyr Nykyforovych	1935	1937
23		Gress Andriy Ivanovych	1937	1937
24		Tkachenko Marko Kindratovich	1937	1937
25		Klochko Petro Serhiiovych	1937	1937
26		Bobrov Ivan Ivanovich	1937	1939
27		Selivanov Alexander Gnatovych  [ uk ]	January 1940	24 October 1941
Military commandant and Ober-Burgomaster of Kharkov during the German occupation 1941-1943
1		Erwin Vierow	24 October 1941	3 December 1941	Nazi Party
2		Alfred von Puttkamer	3 December 1941	9 February 1942
3		Colonels Landenbach and Loevenich	9 February 1942	20 April 1942
4		Wolfgang Schmidt-Logan	20 April 1942	October 1942
5		Kramarenko Oleksiy Ivanovich  [ uk ]	October 1941	August 1942	Ukrainian National Committee
6		Semenenko Oleksandr Platonovych  [ uk ]	1942	15 March 1943
7		Kozakiewicz Pavlo Pavlovych  [ uk; ru ]	15 March 1943	30 April 1943
—		Military Administration	30 April 1943	23 August 1943	Nazi Party
After the German occupation
27		Selivanov Alexander Gnatovych  [ uk ]	23 August 1943	11 February 1948	Communist Party
28		Sachko Petro Petrovich	1948	1950
29		Koptev Anatoliy Panasovych  [ uk ]	1950	1953
30		Bulgakov Alexander Alexandrovich  [ uk ]	1953	1953
31		Mykhailyk Oleksiy Fedosiiovych	1953	1960
32		Fedorenko Konstantin Grigorovich	1960	1961
33		Vlasenko Georgy Yukhimovich  [ uk ]	1961	1969
34		Gurovy Yuriy Andriyovych  [ uk ]	1969	1976
35		Matyushenko Yuriy Yeliseyovych  [ uk ]	1976	1980
36		Vedernikov Valentyn Vadymovych  [ uk ]	1980	1984
37		Obrevko Volodymyr Volodymyrovych  [ uk ]	1984	1985
38		Reznichenko Anatoliy Serhiyovych  [ uk ]	1985	6 August 1985
39		Sokolovsky Stepan Mykolayovych  [ uk ]	6 August 1985	6 April 1990
40		Yevhen Kushnaryov	6 April 1990	April 1998

Independent Ukraine, after 1991

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Political party	Elections
1		Yevhen Kushnaryov	6 April 1990	April 1998	Independent	1990 local elections
					People's Democratic Party	1994 local elections
2		Mykhaylo Pylypchuk	April 1998	21 March 2002	Independent	1998 local elections
3		Volodymyr Shumilkin  [ uk ]	21 March 2002	26 March 2006	Independent	2002 local elections
4		Mykhailo Dobkin	26 March 2006	18 March 2010	Party of Regions	2006 local elections
5		Hennadiy Kernes	24 November 2010	17 December 2020 [1]		2010 local elections
					Revival	2015 local elections
					Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv	2020 local elections
6		Ihor Terekhov	11 November 2021	Incumbent		2021 Kharkiv mayoral elections

Latest election

Main article: 2021 Kharkiv mayoral election

Summary of the 31 October 2021 Kharkiv mayoral election results

Candidate		Party		Votes	%
	Ihor Terekhov	Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv		146,240	50,66
	Mykhailo Dobkin		Independent	82,008	28,41
	Oleksandr Skoryk		European Solidarity	15,462	5,36
	Konstantin Nemychev		Independent	12,258	4,25
Total				288,654	100,00

See also

• Timeline of Kharkiv

References

1. "Помер Геннадій Кернес: мер Харкова, який виграв вибори з реанімації". BBC Ukrainian (in Ukrainian). 17 December 2020. Archived from the original on 19 December 2020.

This article incorporates information from the Ukrainian Wikipedia.