Ivan Kulichenko

Ivan Ivanovych Kulichenko (; born 7 July 1955) is a Ukrainian politician who was from 2014 until 2019 People's Deputy of Ukraine; prior to this, he was Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk for 15 years.

Biography In 1977 Kulichenko graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Civil Engineering. His nearest opponent, Svyatoslav Oliynyk of Ukraine of the Future, received 16.1%. 22 February 2014 was also the day that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Region-led Second Azarov Government were ousted out of office, after the months long Euromaidan-demonstrations had accumulated into the 2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupations and deadly violence in Kyiv.

In the 2014 parliamentary election Kulichenko won a seat in constituency number 28 situated in Dnipropetrovsk as a candidate of Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 33.5% of the votes. He resigned as mayor on 21 November 2014.

Kulichenko was not re-elected in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, as an independent candidate he failed this time to win a seat in constituency number 28.