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Mayor of Chernihiv

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ25435475 ↗
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The Mayor of Chernihiv (Ukrainian: Міський голова Чернігова, romanized: Miskyi holova Chernihova) is the head of the Chernihiv City Council, the local self-government body for the Chernihiv urban hromada, which is coextensive with the city of Chernihiv in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. The current mayor is Oleksandr Lomako, who was appointed on an acting basis on 1 February 2023 after the previously incumbent elected mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko was removed from office by an order of the District Court of Yavoriv on 7 December 2022.

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