Oleksandr Omelchenko

Oleksandr Omelchenko
Oleksandr Omelchenko
Олександр Омельченко
	Omelchenko in 2015
People's Deputy of Ukraine
	In office; 30 September 2007 – 28 October 2012
Head of the Kyiv City State Administration
	In office; 8 August 1996 – 20 April 2006
Preceded by	Leonid Kosakivskyi
Succeeded by	Leonid Chernovetskyi
Mayor of Kyiv
	In office; 30 May 1999 – 14 April 2006
Preceded by	Leonid Kosakivskyi
Succeeded by	Leonid Chernovetskyi
Personal details
Born	9 August 1938; Zoziv, Lypovets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	25 November 2021 (aged 83); Kyiv, Ukraine
Political party	Unity of Oleksandr Omelchenko
Other political; affiliations	Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc; Oleksandr Omelchenko Bloc
Spouse	Lyudmyla
Children	Yan (1966), Oleksandr (1968)
Alma mater	Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute
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Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Omelchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Омельченко; 9 August 1938 – 25 November 2021) was a Ukrainian politician.

He served as the Mayor of Kyiv from 1999 to 2006. Omelchenko was also a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2007 to 2012.^[3]

Omelchenko was the President of both the Association of the Cities of Ukraine and the Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine (1997–2006). In 2001, he bought FC CSKA Kyiv from the Ministry of Defence and transformed it into FC Arsenal Kyiv.

Omelchenko died on 25 November 2021, aged 83, after being infected with COVID-19 which caused a lesion of the lungs.^[4] From 2014 until his death he was a member of the Kyiv City Council.^[4]

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