Volodymyr Mykolaienko Explained

Volodymyr Mykolaienko
Native Name Lang:uk
Predecessor:Zoya Berezhna (acting)
Successor:Ihor Kolykhaiev
Term Start:25 May 2014
Term End:27 November 2020
Office2:Member of the Kherson City Council
Term Start2:June 2006
Term End2:25 May 2014
Birth Name:Volodymyr Vasylovych Mykolaienko
Birth Date:8 April 1960
Birth Place:Kherson, Ukraine, Soviet Union
Party:Independent
Otherparty:Batkivshchyna

Volodymyr Vasylovych Mykolaienko (Ukrainian: Володимир Васильович Миколаєнко; born on 8 April 1960), is a Ukrainian politician who served as the mayor of Kherson from 2015 to 2020.

On 25 May 2014, at the extraordinary elections, Mykolaienko was elected the mayor of Kherson.

He was re-elected as the mayor of Kherson in the next local elections after two rounds (25 October and 15 November 2015, respectively).

Biography

He is a participant of the Euromaidan, after which on 28 May 2014, he was elected mayor of Kherson.[1]

During the events related to the annexation of Crimea and military aggression in the East of Ukraine, Kherson became a strategic temporary border city. During the protests in the East of Ukraine, he expressed his tough position on preventing provocations in Kherson and the impossibility of seizing the city by separatist groups.[2]

In 2015, he was elected mayor, gaining 24.81% of the votes in the 1st round (20,903 votes), in the second round - 67.78% of the votes (37,532 votes).

His successor is Ihor Kolykhaiev, who took office in 2020.

On 24 February 2022, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mykolaienko joined a crowd of hundreds of Kherson residents outside the military enlistment office demanding to be given weapons.[3]

In April 2022, Mykolaienko's wife stated that he had been abducted by Russian occupiers in Kherson and his current whereabouts are unknown.[4]

Income

In 2017, Mykolaienko submitted an electronic declaration for 2016.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Глава городской "Батькивщины" обошел оппонентов.. 28 March 2014. 1+1. 2015-05-13. 2015-05-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518090603/http://ru.tsn.ua/politika/merom-hersona-oficialno-stal-vladimir-nikolaenko-368203.html. live.
  2. Web site: Владимир Миколаенко: "Если потребуется, будем стрелять на поражение" . 2015-05-13 . 2015-01-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150110120114/http://censor.net.ua/resonance/283434/herson_ukrainskiyi_esli_potrebuetsya_budem_strelyat_na_porajenie_mer_mikolaenko . live .
  3. Web site: The battle for Kherson: the defenders that stood firm to the end. Ukrainska Pravda. 23 June 2024. Oleksii. Bratushchak. Kostiantyn. Rieutskyi. 8 March 2023. Olya. Loza. Yuliia. Kravchenko. Polina. Kyrylova. Theodore. Holmes. Oxana. Hart.
  4. mattia_n . In Kherson, the Russian occupiers have abducted Volodymyr Mykolayenko,... . 1516144048750436363 . 2023-04-04 . en.
  5. Web site: 2017-07-05 . Володимир Миколаєнко задекларував три квартири та три земельні ділянки [Інфографіка] ]. 2022-12-01 . 2017-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170705152939/https://www.kolona.net/volodimir-mikolaehnko-zadeklaruvav-tri-kvartiri-ta-tri-zemelni-dilyanki-infografika/ . bot: unknown .