Ihor Kolykhaiev

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Viktorovych and the family name is Kolykhaiev.

Ihor Kolykhaiev
Ігор Колихаєв
Kolykhaiev in February 2020
Mayor of Kherson
Incumbent
In office
27 November 2020 – 28 June 2022 (de-facto, after going missing)[1][2]
Preceded byVolodymyr Mykolayenko
Succeeded byHalyna Luhova (as Head of the Kherson City Military Administration)[3]
Personal details
Born (1971-05-08) 8 May 1971 (age 53)
Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materA. Popov Navy Institute of Radio-electronics
Profession
  • Entrepreneur
  • politician

Ihor Viktorovych Kolykhaiev (Ukrainian: Ігор Вікторович Колихаєв; born 8 May 1971) is a Ukrainian politician who has served as mayor of Kherson since the 2020 Ukrainian local elections.[4] Kolykhaiev is former People's Deputy of Ukraine, elected in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[5]

On 28 June 2022, Kolykhaiev was abducted by Russian agents amidst the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the occupation of Kherson.[2] His whereabouts became unknown until on 13 September 2023 the Red Cross confirmed to Kolykhaiev's son that his father's been added to the Russian list of prisoners and he was in Russia.[1][2]

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