Oleksandr Honcharenko

Oleksandr Vaslyovych Honcharenko (; born 11 August 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, who is the mayor of Kramatorsk since 18 November 2020.

He was previously a member of the Kramatorsk City Council from 2010 to 2020. He was a member of the Party of Regions from 2010 to 2015 and also the Our Land party.

Biography Oleksandr Honcharenko was born on 11 August 1974 in Bilenke, Kramatorsk district.

Education In 1991, he graduated from Kramatorsk Secondary School No. 22, where he studied with the future politician and entrepreneur Maxim Yefimov. He studied at the University of Bern with a degree in business economics, but eventually graduated from Donetsk National University with a degree in finance and credit.

He was the marketing and sales director at the Energomashspetsstal plant. He was a co-owner of the Kramatorsk Krobit enterprise and the Yasnogorovskoye farm.

During the early parliamentary elections of 2014, he was the proxy of candidate Yefimov.

In the local elections of 2015, he was reelected as a member of the Kramatorsk City Council the VII convocation from the "Our Land" party, once again heading the permanent commission on social and economic development, planning, budget, finance, and foreign economic activities.

In the first round, he won 48.61% of the votes. In the second round, he defeated the current mayor Andriy Pankov, gaining 57% of the vote. After the publication of the exit polls, the winner was congratulated by People's Deputy from the Opposition Platform, Nataliya Korolevska.

In March 2021, a project to dismantle advertising structures from the central streets began under the slogan: "In Kramatorsk there is something to see even without advertising!"

Family He is married and has a daughter.