Yuri Wilkul

Jurij Wilkul 2010

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Ю́рій Григо́рович Ві́лкул
Transl. :	Jurij Hryhorovyč Vilkul
Transcr. :	Jurij Hryhorowytsch Wilkul
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Юрий Григорьевич Вилкул
Transl .:	Juryj Hryhor'evyč Vylkul
Transcr .:	Yuri Grigoryevich Wilkul

Jurij Hryhorowytsch Wilkul (born November 14, 1949 in Krywyj Rih , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian politician , mayor of Krywyj Rih and former rector of the Technical University of Krywyj Rih .

Life

Jurij Wilkul was born in Kryvyi Rih in the west of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and studied there between 1968 and 1973 at the Technical University. From 1987 to 2006 he worked at the Technical University of Krywyj Rih, first as a lecturer, then as an associate professor, head of the research complex, head of department, finally vice-rector, prorector and since 2003 as rector. Between August 30, 2006 and June 3, 2010 he was Chairman of the Oblast Parliament of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. He then returned to his university as deputy rector until November 2010 and was elected mayor of Krywyj Rih in November 2010. Wilkul is an honorary citizen of his hometown.

He was a member of the KPU , then the Party of Regions, and ran for the opposition bloc in the 2015 local elections .

His son Oleksandr Wilkul (* 1974) is also a politician and member of the opposition bloc.

Local election 2015/2016

In the local elections in Krywyj Rih in November 2015, Wilkul narrowly won the second ballot against his challenger for mayor's office. However, he was accused of fraudulent elections and protests broke out in the city. The head of the Central Electoral Commission, Mychajlo Ochendowskyj , who was appointed under the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych , on the other hand, considers the election to be legitimate and the questioning of its legitimacy as politically motivated. On December 23, 2015, the Verkhovna Rada terminated Yury Wilkul's powers as mayor of Kryvyi Rih and ordered a new mayor for March 27, 2016. With a turnout of 55.88%, Wilkul won the new election with 73% of the vote. His challenger Semen Sementschenko , who became known as the commander of the Donbass paramilitary battalion in the war in eastern Ukraine , only won 11% of the vote.

Web links

• Biography Jurij Wilkul on Who-is-Who Ukraine (Ukrainian)
• Entry on Jurij Wilkul in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on the official website of the Executive Committee of the Kryvyi Rih City Council ( memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 25, 2015 
2. ↑ Short biography on the website of the Academy of Mining Sciences of Ukraine , accessed on December 25, 2015
3. ↑ In Krivoy Rog Square prepared by forgery , Pravda, November 17, 2015, accessed December 25, 2015
4. ↑ Krivoy Rog: Silowiki tries to disperse the rally at the city board on "hromadske.tv" from November 17, 2015 ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 25, 2015 
5. ↑ Okhendovsky believes Vilkul pretty much won the Krivoy Rog election in espreso.tv on December 18, 2015, accessed on December 26, 2015
6. ↑ CEC Chairman sees no reason to question the election results in Krivoy Rog , on November 19, 2015, accessed on December 26, 2015
7. ^ The council ordered early elections in Kryvyi Rih to be held on March 27 , Pravda, December 23, 2015, accessed on December 25, 2015
8. ↑ Выборы в Кривом Роге: предварительные итоги , Korrespondent.net, March 27, 2016

Remarks

1. ↑ The Ukrainian-language Wikipedia has an article on the local elections in Kryvyi Rih under Вибори у Кривому Розі (2015)