Today, on 3 March, Kryvyi Rih City Election Commission has stopped registration of candidates for Kryvyi Rih City Mayor.
Thus, City Election Commission has registered 15 candidates including 10 self-nominated and 5 representatives of political parties (Samopomich Union, Ukrainian Union of Patriots – UKROP, Narodnyi Kontrol Civic Movement political party, Serhii Kaplin's Party of Simple People, and Syla Liudei).
There are 4 women and 11 men.
Two nominees were rejected.
Registered candidates:
Semen Semenchenko
Semen Semenvhenko Ihorovych (Samopomich Union) – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 6 June 1974. Graduated as film director. Commander of the Donbas volunteer battalion. MP of Ukraine in the Parliament of VIII convocation representing the Samopomich Union. First Deputy Head of the VRU Committee on National Security and Defense, Reserve Soldier at the National Guard of Ukraine.
Svitlana Sova
Sova Svitlana Mykolaivna (Syla Liudei) – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 4 September 1975. Graduated in Economic and Legal sciences. Owner and Director of the Legal Agency “Rada Invest” LLC. Participant of charitable fund “Civic Initiative of Kryvbas Citizens”, activist of civic association Environmental Council of Kryvyi Rih. Member of Kryvyi Rih City Council of V convocation (2006-2010). Participated in 2015 parliamentary election as a nominee from the People's Front political party. Was nominated for city mayor by the Syla Liudei party in the first round of 2015 local elections. Current Member of Kryvyi Rih City Council.
Yurii Vilkul
Vilkul Yurii Hryhorovych (self-nominated) – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 14 November 1949. Doctor of Engineering. Former member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 2006 to 2010 – Chairman of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council; since June 2010 – Member of Oblast Council, elected through the list of Party of Regions, was the Head of Committee on Construction, Transport, Communications and City Planning. Was elected as Mayor of Kryvyi Rih in Spring 2010. In November 2015, was elected as City Mayor again. Vice-President of the Academy of Mining Sciences of Ukraine.
Oleksandr Kryzhov
Kryzhov Oleksandr Volodymyrovych – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 10 April 1950 in Zhytomyr oblast. Obtained higher education, Head Physician at the “Mriia-Medservis” private clinic. Participant of military operations in Czechoslovakia, Chornobyl aftermath mitigation participant. Was the Head of Health Care Department at Kryvorizhstal. One of the first activists at Euromaidan in Kryvyi Rih, volunteer. Ex member of the Socialist Party. Was nominated for city mayor by the Party of Afghanistan War Veterans in 2015 local elections.
Yana Berkut
Berkut Yana Volodymyrivna (self-nominated) – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 12 July 1973, obtained higher education, is Director of the Estreia LLC, lives in Kryvyi Rih. Was nominated for member of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council in district #97 by the Narodnyi Kontrol Civic Movement political party in 2015.
Oleh Boichenko
Boichenko Oleh Petrovych (self-nominated) – citizen of Ukraine, was born in 1968, Head of the citizen association “Kryvbas Self-Defense”, entrepreneur, owner of a sport horse farm, a former boxer. Active participant of a volunteering movement. Was nominated for Mayor of Kryvyi Rih in 2015 local elections by AUU Svoboda. Assistant-consultant of MP Yurii Levchenko.
Inna Ivanchenko
Ivanchenko Ivanna Ivanivna (self-nominated) – citizen of Ukraine, was born in Kirovohrad, obtained higher education, a jurist. Chief Editor of the Kryvyi Rih Vechirnii newspaper. Civic activist, human rights activist. Ex member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine.
Mykola Kolesnyk
Kolesnyk Mykola Yuriiiovych (UKROP) – citizen of Ukraine, was born in 1967, obtained higher education, a jurist. Ex member of the Party of Regions. 2010 – Member of Kryvyi Rih City Council. March 2014 – advisor to the Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast State Administration. Since March 2014 – supervisor of the 40th battalion of the territorial defense. Senior Legal Advisor at the Ukrbudinvest LLC. Current Member of Kryvyi Rih City Council.
Oleh Kosiak
Kosiak Oleh Volodymyrovych (self-nominated) – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 10 September 1968. Graduated Moscow High Combined Arms Command School in 1992, lieutenant. Obtained higher education. Head of Political Science Department at Kryvyi Rih Separated Subdivision of Zaporizhia Economy and Information Technologies Institute. 1993 — 1997 served in military counterintelligence bodies of SBU. Since 2011 Deputy Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Organization of the Committee on Corruption and Human Rights Violations. Head of the public reception. Was nominated to city council by AUU Batkivshchyna in 2015 local election, district #45.
Oleksii Kryvenko
Kryvenko Oleksii Yuriiovych (self-nominated) – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 17 October 1979. Received higher education. Associate Professor, Teacher at the Heat and Power Engineering Department in Kryvyi Rih National University. Was independently nominated for city mayor in 2015 local elections.
Ihor Levytskyi
Levytskyi Ihor Vasyliovych (Narodnyi Kontrol Civic Movement political party) – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 5 February 1969 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, raised in a children's home. Obtained higher pedagogical education, is obtaining the second higher education in legal science. Entrepreneur, founder and Head of the Children Dreams charitable fund. In 2010 – Member of City Council representing the Strong Ukraine. Since 2013 – Vice President of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Football Federation. Since 2014 – Head of the Samopomich Union NGO. Was nominated by the Syla Liudei party to Kryvyi Rih City Council in 2015 local elections, district #11.
Oleksandr Natarov
Natarov Oleksandr Vasyliovych (self-nominated) – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 4 September 1970, private entrepreneur Kharchenko H.A., Warehouse Manager. Was nominated by the AUU Vidrodzhennia Ukrainy to City Council in 2015 Kryvyi Rih local elections.
Nataliia Novytska
Novytska Nataliia Volodymyrivna (self-nominated) – citizen of Ukraine, was born in 1975, obtained higher education, unemployed, worked as seller, consultant and operator at the Kryvyi Rih Electric Repair Plant LLC.
Vasyl Serdiuk
Serdiukov Vasyl Mykolaiovych (Party of Simple People) – citizen of Ukraine, was born on 9 March 1952 in Kazakhstan. Obtained higher education, Film and Photo Studio Director. 1981-1994 – Director at the Palace of Culture in Kazakhstan. 1995-2006 – Director at the Palace of Culture and Arts, Poltava Mining Plant OJSC in Kryvyi Rih. Unaffiliated.
Yaroslav Shram
Rejected nominees:
Eduard Komar
Viktoriia Shylova