Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast

The Governor of Zaporizhia Oblast is the head of state administration for the Zaporizhia Oblast.

The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of Ukraine, on recommendation from the Prime Minister of Ukraine, to serve four year term.

The official residence for the Governor is located in Zaporizhia. The current Governor is Hryhoriy Samardak, who assumed office on October 29, 2014 as Acting Governor and was formally appointed by a Presidential Decree on 6 April 2015.^[1]

Governors

Chairman of Executive Committee of Zaporizhia Oblast

• Danylo Lezhenko (1939)
• Zakhar Dorofeyev (1940-1941)
• Nazi German occupation (1941-1943)
• Zakhar Dorofeyev (1943-1944)
• Vasyl Ponomarenko (1944-1950)^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Mykola Titov (1950-1951)
• Vasyl Ponomarenko (1951-1952)
• Volodymyr Skryabin (1952-1957)
• Fedir Mokrous (1957-1963)
• Oleksandr Guyva (1963-1964)^{[lower-alpha 2]}
• Pavlo Sklyarov (1963-1964)^{[lower-alpha 3]}
• Fedir Mokrous (1964-1969)
• Mykhailo Khorunzhy (1969-1976)
• Petro Moskalkov (1976-1988)
• Volodymyr Demyanov (1988-1992)

Representatives of the President

• Volodymyr Demyanov (1992)
• Yurii Bochkarev (1992-1994)

Chairman of the Executive Committee

• Vyacheslav Pokhvalsky (1994-1995)

Heads of the Administration

• Vyacheslav Pokhvalsky (1995-1998)
• Volodymyr Kuratchenko (1998-1999)
• Yevhen Kartashov (1999)
• Volodymyr Kuratchenko (1999-2000)
• Oleksii Kucherenko (2000-2001)
• Serhiy Sazonov (2001) (acting)
• Yevhen Kartashov (2001-2003)
• Volodymyr Berezovsky (2003-2005)
• Yuriy Artemenko (2005)
• Anatolii Holovko (2005) (acting)
• Yevhen Chervonenko (2005-2007)
• Valery Cherkaska (2007-2008) (acting)
• Oleksandr Starukh (2008-2010)^{[lower-alpha 4]}
• Borys Petrov (2010-2011)
• Oleksandr Peklushenko (2011-2014)
• Valery Baranov (2014)
• Hryhoriy Samardak (from October 29, 2014 acting; officially appointed on April 6, 2015.^[1])

Notes

See also

• Zaporizhia Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine

References

External links

• Government of Zaporizhia Oblast in Ukrainian
• World Statesmen.org

Chairmen of regional state administrations of Ukraine
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1Claimed and controlled by Russia as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol