List of mayors of Chernivtsi

Not to be confused with List of mayors of Chernihiv.

Crest of the city of Czernowitz 1908

City Hall of Czernowitz about 1900

The following is a list of mayors of the city of Chernivtsi, Ukraine. It includes positions equivalent to mayor, such as chairperson of the city council executive committee.

Austrian period

City Hall of Czernowitz today

Prehistory

In the period from 1780 to 1832 the town was ruled by so-called municipal judges. Usually they led the city only between one and two years. A longer tenure had only Joseph Hampel (1796–1800 and 1802–1811), Alexander Beldowicz (1811–1817) and the last city judge, Andreas Klug (1817–1832).

1832: Regulation of local government, creating a magistrate

• Franz Lihotzky (1832–1848)
• Adalbert Suchanek (1848–1854)
• Josef Ortynski (1854–1858)
• Josef Lepszy (1859–1861)
• Julius Hubrich (1861–1864)

1864: Czernowitz becomes a town with its own statute

• Jakob Ritter von Petrowicz (1864–1866)
• Anton Freiherr Kochanowski von Stawczan (1866–1874)
• Otto Ambros Edler von Rechtenberg (1874–1880)
• Wilhelm Ritter von Klimesch (1881–1887)
• Anton Freiherr Kochanowski von Stawczan (1887–1905), since April 4, 1905 honorary mayor
• Dr. Eduard Reiss (1905–1907)
• Felix Freiherr Brewer von Fürth (1907–1913)
• Dr. Salo Edler von Weisselberger (1913–1918)

Since 1918

Period of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic

• Yosyp Bezpalko, 1918

Romanian period

• Gheorghe Șandru, 1918–1919
• Teofil Siminovici, 1919–1920
• Gheorghe Șandru, 1920–1922
• Nicu Flondor, 1922–1926
• Barbu Grigorovici, 1926
• Radu Sbiera, 1926–1927
• Romulus Cândea, 1927–1929
• Dimitrie Marmeluc, 1933–1938
• Nicu Flondor, 1938–1940

Soviet period

• Alexey Ivanovich Nikitin, 1940–1941
• Anton Ivanovich Koshovyi, 1944–1945
• Alexander Nikiforovich Gritsay, 1945–1948
• Ivan Fedorovych Kozachuk, 1948–1949
• Polikarp Arkhipovich Kotko, 1949–1950
• Viktor Ivanovich Gutafel, 1950–1954
• Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhailovsky, 1954–1959
• Petro Petrovych Donchenko, 1959–1964
• Vasil Petrovich Tolmach, 1964–1972
• Volodymyr Fedorovych Dotsiuk, 1972–1985
• Pavlo Mykhailovych Kaspruk, 1985–1991
• Georgy Dmitrovich Grodetsky, 1991

Modernity

• Viktor Pavliuk, 1991–2004
• Mykola Fedoruk, 1994–2011
• Oleksiy Kaspruk, 2014–2020
• Roman Klichuk, 2020-

Gallery

Mayors during Austrian period

• 
  Jakob von Petrowicz
• 
  Anton Kochanowski von Stawczan
• 
  Otto Ambros von Rechtenberg
• 
  Wilhelm von Klimesch
• 
  Eduard Reiss
• 
  Felix Brewer von Fürth
• 
  Salo von Weisselberger

Ukrainian mayors of Chernivtsi

• 
  Yosyp Bezpalko

See also

• Chernivtsi history
• History of Chernivtsi (in Ukrainian)