Mykhaylo Pylypchuk | |
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Михайло Пилипчук | |
Member of the Kharkiv Oblast Council | |
Assumed office 26 March 2006 | |
2nd Mayor of Kharkiv | |
In office 20 December 1996 – 21 March 2002 | |
Preceded by | Yevhen Kushnaryov |
Succeeded by | Volodymyr Shumilkin |
Personal details | |
Born | Mykhaylo Dmytrovych Pylypchuk 25 October 1946 Koziatyn, Ukraine, Soviet Union |
Political party | Revival |
Mykhaylo Dmytrovych Pylypchuk (Ukrainian: Михайло Дмитрович Пилипчук; born on 25 October 1945), is a Ukrainian politician who had served as the 2nd mayor of Kharkiv from 1996 to 2002.
He had been a member of the Kharkiv Oblast Council, and a member of the Revival Party. He is known to be the liquidator of the Chernobyl accident.[1]
He is an honored Builder of Ukraine, and was the awarded the State Order of Ukraine "For Merit" II and III degree, as well as the Commander's Cross for Merit of Poland.[1]
He is a chairman of the International Boris Chichibabin Memorial Foundation.[2]
He is an honorary citizen of Kharkiv in 2007.[3]