Borys Kucher
Russian-born Ukrainian politician
Borys Oleksandrovych Kucher (Ukrainian: Борис Олександрович Кучер; 28 January 1942 - 5 April 1999), was a Russian-born Ukrainian politician who served as the Mayor of Sevastopol from 1998 until his death in 1999.
He was a corresponding Member of the International Academy of Organizational and Management Sciences.
Biography
Borys Kucher was born in Chelyabinsk on 28 January 1942. After graduating from the Kharkov College of Road Transport in 1961, he served in the Soviet Army. He took part in the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
In 1964, after returning to the Soviet Union and leaving the army, he worked until 1977 in the Kharkiv defense enterprise. He went from equipment to the deputy chief of the workshop. For his success in work in 1975 he was awarded to take a picture of the victory flag, for four years he was the winner of the socialist competition.
In 1971, he graduated from the Ukrainian Correspondence Polytechnic Institute and the Kharkiv Engineering and Economic Institute in 1983.
Since 1977, Kucher lived in Sevastopol.
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