Oleksandr Omelchenko

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

Oleksandr Omelchenko
Олександр Омельченко
Omelchenko in 2015
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
30 September 2007 – 28 October 2012
Head of the Kyiv City State Administration
In office
8 August 1996 – 20 April 2006
Preceded byLeonid Kosakivskyi
Succeeded byLeonid Chernovetskyi
Mayor of Kyiv
In office
30 May 1999 – 14 April 2006
Preceded byLeonid Kosakivskyi
Succeeded byLeonid Chernovetskyi
Personal details
Born(1938-08-09)9 August 1938
Zoziv, Lypovets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died25 November 2021(2021-11-25) (aged 83)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Political partyUnity of Oleksandr Omelchenko[1]
Other political
affiliations		Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc[2]
Oleksandr Omelchenko Bloc
SpouseLyudmyla[3]
ChildrenYan (1966), Oleksandr (1968)[3]
Alma materKyiv Civil Engineering Institute
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Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Omelchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Омельченко; 9 August 1938 – 25 November 2021) was a Ukrainian politician.

He served as the Mayor of Kyiv from 1999 to 2006. Omelchenko was also a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2007 to 2012.[3]

Omelchenko was the President of both the Association of the Cities of Ukraine and the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine (1997–2006). In 2001, he bought FC CSKA Kyiv from the Ministry of Defence and transformed it into FC Arsenal Kyiv.

Omelchenko died on 25 November 2021, aged 83, after being infected with COVID-19 which caused a lesion of the lungs.[4] From 2014 until his death he was a member of the Kyiv City Council.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference chesno.org/post/42458% was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ (in Ukrainian) Official Verkhovna Rada website profile via Wayback Machine, original link no longer available via Official Verkhovna Rada website profile, Verkhovna Rada
  3. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Liga was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Kyiv ex-mayor Omelchenko dies, Interfax-Ukraine (25 November 2021)