Oleksiy Yuriyovych Kucherenko
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
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

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]

Biography

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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