Oleksandr Lukyanchenko
Mayor of Donetsk, Ukraine
Oleksandr Oleksiyovych Lukyanchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Олексійович Лук'янченко, Russian: Александр Алексеевич Лукьянченко; born 30 August 1947) is the de facto former mayor of the city of Donetsk, Ukraine. Under Ukrainian law, he is the de jure Mayor since 2014.
Life
He was born to a Russian-speaking Ukrainian family in the village of Berdychi, in Donetsk Oblast. He attended primary school in the village of his birth, and secondary school in Avdiivka. In 1962, he entered the Makiivka Civil Engineering Institute, and then served in a tank corps in the Soviet Army. After his service in the army, he worked as a chief engineer at multiple factories in Donetsk.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became vice-president of the city administration in Donetsk city on 27 November 1992. From 1994 to 1996, he worked in the Donetsk regional state administration, where he also achieved the post of vice-president. Then, he spent two years as the director-general of the highway administration of Donetsk Oblast. He was nominated vice-mayor of Donetsk city, under Volodymyr Rybak, who he replaced as mayor in 2002 after 31 March municipal elections.
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