Mishelʹ Tereshchenko

Michel Robert Gerard Tereshchenko (; born 15 September 1954) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as Mayor of Hlukhiv from 2015 to 2020.

Biography Michel Robert Gerard Tereshchenko was born on 15 September 1954 in Paris, His father was Pierre Terestchenko, while his grandfather was landowner and sugar baron Mikhail Tereshchenko, who served as foreign minister and finance minister of the Russian Provisional Government. Tereshchenko spent much of his life in the United States before moving to Ukraine in 2002. He moved to the city of Hlukhiv, where the Tereshchenko family had been landowners prior to the October Revolution. There, he worked in the flax and hemp industry.

In March 2015 Tereshchenko was granted Ukrainian citizenship by President Petro Poroshenko, and in October of the same year he was elected as mayor of Hlukhiv. Terestchenko's campaign was based on solving corruption and establishing Hlukhiv as a leading city of historical tourism in Europe, as well as strengthening democracy within Ukraine. Tereshchenko's victory was widely celebrated on Ukrainian social media, with one user referring to it as "miraculous news".

Following the Kerch Strait incident Tereshchenko returned to office as mayor of Hlukhiv. He dropped out of the race on 3 January 2019 and instead placed his support behind Andriy Sadovyi, joining the Self Reliance party. He did not seek re-election in the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, and was succeeded by Our Land candidate Nadia Vailo.