Oleksandr Omelchenko

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Олександр Олександрович Омельченко
Transl. : Oleksandr Oleksandrovyč Omel'čenko
Transcr. : Oleksandr Oleksandrovytsch Omelchenko
Oleksandr Omelchenko 2005

Oleksandr Oleksandrowytsch Omelchenko (born August 9, 1938 in Sosiw , Vinnytsia Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian politician and was mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kiev from 1999 to 2006 .

Life

Oleksandr Omelchenko's father graduated from the Kharkiv technical school and was employed as a foreman on the construction of a dam in the village of Soziv in Lypovets district of Vinnytsia Oblast, where he met his wife, the mother of Oleksxandr, whom he married. Oleksandr arrived in the village in 1938 to the world, and after the father in World War II was drafted into the Army, his mother moved with her siblings after Karabatschyn ( Карабачин ) in Rajon Brusyliv the Oblast Zhytomyr . In 1956 Omelchenko finished school in Brusyliw and graduated from the Kiev School of Architecture and Design in 1959. Between 1959 and 1961 he worked in a cement factory in Kiev Oblast and did his military service. In 1974 Omeltschenko graduated from the Kiev National University of Construction and Architecture and 1978 from the Kiev Institute of Economics.

Between 1987 and 1989 he worked as a construction consultant in Afghanistan and then went to Armenia , where he was employed as chief engineer from March to July 1989 with the removal of the consequences of an earthquake . In November 1989 he defended his Ph.D. (Candidate in technical sciences).

Omelchenko was the chairman of the Kiev city ​​administration from August 8, 1996 . In the first election as Mayor of Kiev at the end of May 1999, Omelchenko prevailed against the oligarch Hryhorij Surkis (16%) with 76 percent of the vote . He thus became the first elected mayor in the modern history of Ukraine, and held the mayor's office until April 20, 2006. From 1999 to 2006 he was also President of the Union of Ukrainian Cities. In the mayoral elections on March 26, 2006 he achieved only third place with 20% behind Vitali Klitschko with 29% of the votes and Leonid Tschernowezkyj , who was his successor with 34% of the vote. In 2004 he ran for the presidential election in Ukraine as a presidential candidate and achieved only 0.48% with 136,830 votes received. From November 23, 2007 to December 12, 2012, Omelchenko was a member of the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament, for the Blok Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna samooborona party. He has been a member of the Kiev City Council since June 2014.

Honors

Omelchenko received numerous awards. In 1982 he was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union and in 1986 the Order of the Red Banner of Labor , and in 1998 he became Grand Officer of the Portuguese Order of Infante Dom Henrique . Furthermore, Omelchenko has been the Hero of Ukraine since 2001 , an honorary citizen of Kiev since 2013 and the Order of Daniel of Galicia . In addition, he is the holder of the order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise III. (2006), IV. (1999) and V. (1998) class.

Private

Oleksandr Omeltschenko is married to the engineer Ljudmyla (* 1945), has two sons (born 1966 and 1968) and lives in Kiev.

Web links

Commons : Oleksandr Omelchenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Omelchenko on brusilov.org.ua ( Memento of the original from September 28, 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. (Ukrainian), accessed September 27, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brusilov.org.ua
  2. ↑ a b c d biography of Omelchenko on file.liga.net , accessed on September 27, 2015
  3. ↑ Kiev in 1999: Omelchenko won the mayoral election against Surkis , on segodnya.ua on March 29, 2011; accessed on September 27, 2015
  4. ↑ CIDADÃOS ESTRANGEIROS AGRACIADOS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS , accessed on September 27, 2015
  5. ↑ Biography on the website of the "Heroes of Ukraine" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Ukrainian), accessed September 27, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ukrgeroes.narod.ru
  6. ↑ Honorary citizen on the website of the city of Kiev , accessed on September 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Omelchenko, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Omelchenko, Oleksandr Oleksandrovytsch (full name); Оме́льченко, Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian politician, Mayor of Kiev
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Soziv , Vinnytsia Oblast , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic