The following is a list of mayors of the city of Chernivtsi, Ukraine. It includes positions equivalent to mayor, such as chairperson of the city council executive committee.
Austrian period
Prehistory
In the period from 1780 to 1832 the town was ruled by so-called municipal judges. Usually they led the city only between one and two years. A longer tenure had only Joseph Hampel (1796–1800 and 1802–1811), Alexander Beldowicz (1811–1817) and the last city judge, Andreas Klug (1817–1832).
1832: Regulation of local government, creating a magistrate
Franz Lihotzky (1832–1848) Adalbert Suchanek (1848–1854) Josef Ortynski (1854–1858) Josef Lepszy (1859–1861) Julius Hubrich (1861–1864)
1864: Czernowitz becomes a town with its own statute
Jakob Ritter von Petrowicz (1864–1866) Anton Freiherr Kochanowski von Stawczan (1866–1874) Otto Ambros Edler von Rechtenberg (1874–1880) Wilhelm Ritter von Klimesch (1881–1887) Anton Freiherr Kochanowski von Stawczan (1887–1905), since April 4, 1905 honorary mayor Dr. Eduard Reiss (1905–1907) Felix Freiherr Brewer von Fürth (1907–1913) Dr. Salo Edler von Weisselberger (1913–1918)
Since 1918
Period of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic
Yosyp Bezpalko, 1918
Romanian period
Gheorghe Șandru, 1918-1919
Teofil Siminovici, 1919-1920
Gheorghe Șandru, 1920-1922
Nicu Flondor, 1922-1926
Barbu Grigorovici, 1926
Radu Sbiera, 1926-1927
Romulus Cândea, 1927-1929
Dimitrie Marmeluc, 1933-1938
Nicu Flondor, 1938-1940
Soviet period
Alexey Ivanovich Nikitin, 1940-1941
Anton Ivanovich Koshov, 1944-1945
Alexander Nikiforovich Gritsay, 1945-1948
, 1948-1949
Polikarp Arkhipovich Kotko, 1949-1950
Viktor Ivanovich Gutafel, 1950-1954
Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhailovsky, 1954-1959
Petro Ivanovich Donchenko, 1959-1964
Interpreter Vasil Petrovich, 1964-1972
, 1972-1985
, 1985-1991
Georgy Dmitrovich Grodetsky, 1991
Modernity
, 1991-2004
, 1994-2011
, 2014-2020
, 2020-
Gallery
Mayors during Austrian period
See also
Chernivtsi history
History of Chernivtsi (in Ukrainian)