Ivan Kulichenko

In 1977 Kulichenko graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Civil Engineering.[5] In 1979, after his conscription in the Armed Forces of the USSR, he became a civil servant in the urban planning department of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[5] In 1986 Kulichenko was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Dnipropetrovsk City Council.[5] Four years later he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk.[5] Kulichenko became the First Deputy Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk (city) in 1994.[5] In 1999 Kulichenko became acting Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk.[5] Since then he was (re-)elected Mayor four times, in 2000, in 2002, in 2006 and in 2010.[5] In 2010 he was re-elected with 40,1% as a candidate of Party of Regions.[6] His nearest opponent, Svyatoslav Oliynyk of Ukraine of the Future, received 16.1%.[6] On 22 February 2014 Kulichenko left Party of Regions "for peace in the city".[7] Earlier that day locals, while picketing the city council, had demanded his departure of Party of Regions.[7] 22 February 2014 was also the day that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Region's lead Second Azarov Government were ousted out of office, after the months long Euromaidan-demonstrations had accumulated into the 2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupations and deadly violence in Kyiv.[8]

In the 2014 parliamentary election Kulichenko won a constituency seat in constituency number 28 situated in Dnipropetrovsk as a candidate of Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 33.5% of the votes.[9] He resigned as mayor on 21 November 2014.[4]

Kulichenko was not re-elected in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, as an independent candidate he failed this time to win a seat in constituency number 28.[10] This time 13.49% of the voters of the constituency voted for him.[10]

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