Oleksiy Yuriyovych Kucherenko (Ukrainian: Олексій Юрійович Кучеренко; born April 3, 1961) is a Ukrainian politician. He was Minister of Housing and Communal Services from 2007 to 2010.[1] Kucherenko previously served as Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast from 2000 to 2001.[2]

Oleksiy Kucherenko
Олексій Кучеренко
Kucherenko in 2014
Minister of Housing and Communal Services
In office
December 18, 2007 – March 11, 2010
PresidentViktor Yushchenko
Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko
Preceded byOleksandr Popov
Succeeded byOleksandr Popov
Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
In office
June 14, 2000 – March 19, 2001
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byVolodymyr Kuratchenko
Succeeded bySerhiy Sazonov (acting)
Personal details
Born (1961-04-03) April 3, 1961 (age 63)
Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Political partyBatkivshchyna
Other political
affiliations
Our Ukraine
Alma materKyiv University
National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine[1]
Occupationpolitician

Biography

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Kucherenko was a Member of Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) of III (he won a seat in constituency number 80 located in Zaporizhia Oblast as a self-nominated candidate), V (as a candidate of the Our Ukraine Bloc), VI convocation (as a candidate for the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc).[1] The following election, the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Kucherenko failed as a candidate for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc to win a parliamentary seat in constituency 216 located in Kyiv, he lost by a small margin of 100 votes.[1] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he returned to parliament for Batkivshchyna.[3]

He is a Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in sociological sciences.[1]

Kucherenko was the candidate of Batkivshchyna for the post of Mayor of Kyiv in the 2020 Kyiv local election set for October 25, 2020.[4][5] In the election he received 45,823 votes, securing fourth place but losing the election to incumbent Mayor Vitali Klitschko who was re-elected in the first round of the election with 50.52% of the votes, 365,161 people had voted for him.[6]

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Political offices
Preceded by Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
2000–2001
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine
2007–2010
Succeeded by
Oleksandr Popov