Serhii Ivanovych Sukhomlyn (Ukrainian: Сергій Іванович Сухомлин; born on 21 June 1971), is a Ukrainian politician who is currently the Mayor of Zhytmomyr since 2015.[1]

Serhii Sukhomlyn
Сергій Сухомлин
Mayor of Zhytomyr
Assumed office
15 November 2015
Preceded byVolodymyr Deboy
Personal details
Born
Serhii Ivanovych Sukhomlyn

(1971-06-21) 21 June 1971 (age 53)
Chervonoarmiysk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyProposition
European Solidarity

He is a member of the Main Council of the Proposition party.[2]

Biography

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Serhii Sukhomlyn was born on 21 June 1971 in Chervonoarmeysk, Rivne region. In 1988, he graduated from the Zhytomyr secondary school No. 21.[3]

He is a graduate of the Kharkov Higher Tank Command School. He passed military service in Zhytomyr. After that, he was the commercial director of the Technotronik and Visage enterprises.[3]

In 2006, he became a deputy of the Zhytomyr city council of the 5th convocation from the Our Ukraine Bloc. Later he joined the United Center party. In 2008, together with his city council colleagues Hennadiy Zubko and Oleksandr Rabinovych, he founded the public organization Our Home Zhytomyr.[4] In October 2009, together with Zubko and Rabinovich, he left the United Center party.[5]

In 2010, Sukhomlyn was elected to the Zhytomyr Regional Council from the Front for Change. In the parliamentary elections of 2012, he was on the list of "Batkivshchyna", but was not elected. He was part of the Euromaidan. From March 2014 to November 2015, he was the First Deputy Mayor of Zhytomyr. In 2015, Sukhomlyn won the election of the mayor of Zhytomyr as a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party.[6] He took office on 15 November.

In 2016, he graduated from the University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine with a degree in Finance and Credit.[3]

On the eve of the 2020 local elections, he joined the Proposition party.[7] In the second round of elections, Sukhomlin won 51.37% of the vote, thus remaining the head of the city for a second term.[8]

In December 2020, Sukhomlyn convinced that a complete lockdown during the quarantine period is only possible if the state provides financial assistance to businesses.[9]

Family

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He is married with his wife Svitlana, and has three children - son Andrii and daughters Yulia and Sofia.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Офіційні результати виборів у Житомирі: хто став мером і хто пройшов у міськраду". 24 Канал (in Ukrainian). 6 November 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Ukrainian People's demands to international community". pep.org.ua. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Сухомлин Сергій Іванович". Житомирська міська рада (in Ukrainian). 2020-08-11. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2020-08-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ "ГРОМАДСЬКА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ НАШ ДІМ ЖИТОМИР". opendatabot.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  5. ^ "Зубко, Сухомлин и Рабинович вышли из Житомирской ячейки партии "Единый Центр"". zhzh.info. Archived from the original on 2011-12-07. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  6. ^ "Сухомлин Сергій Іванович — вся правда Біографія, Балотування, Фракції, Декларація". www.chesno.org. Archived from the original on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  7. ^ "Міський голова Житомира Сергій Сухомлин увійшов до складу головної ради партії "Пропозиція"". zhzh.info. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  8. ^ "Официальные результаты местных выборов 2020 года: кто победил - Выборы". 24 Канал (in Russian). 2020-11-07. Archived from the original on 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  9. ^ "Повний локдаун у Житомирі: коментарі Сергія Сухомлина". yes-zhytomyr.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  10. ^ "В родині мера Житомира Сергія Сухомлина з'явилася ще одна дівчинка". www.zhitomir.info (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-09-06.