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Bohdan Andriiv

Ukrainian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ56492279 ↗
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Bohdan Yevstafiyovich Andriiv (Ukrainian: Богдан Євстафійович Андріїв; born 12 August 1969) is a Ukrainian politician and mayor of Uzhhorod since 2015.

During the 2019 Ukrainian elections, Andriiv was a candidate for People's Deputy under the "Opposition Bloc" coalition, but was unsuccessful. Andriiv was formerly a member of the pro-Russian Party of Regions.

Early life and education

Bohdan Andriiv was born on August 12, 1969, in the village of Koniukhiv, Lviv Oblast in Soviet Ukraine.

In 1986, Andriiv graduated from secondary school in the village of Duliby.

From 1986 to 1987, he worked as a junior medical worker at the Stryi Raion Hospital. After that, he served in the Soviet Army for two years, ending in 1989.

Then in December 1989, Andriiv attended the Odesa National Academy of Food Technologies, graduating in 1995 with a degree in food industry equipment.

In July 1995, Andriiv was appointed to the position of leading specialist and head of department at the Transcarpathian Center for Certified Auctions

From November 1996 to November 2004, he was an employee of the Carpathian Regional Customs. He worked as a senior inspector, chief inspector and head of the anti-smuggling department.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bohdan Andriiv” is ukrainian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bohdan, Andriiv and Ukrainian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 2015, 2019, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-08-12. For this dossier, Bohdan, Andriiv and Ukrainian is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56492279. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969, 2015, 2019 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bohdan Andriiv” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.