Stepan Kirichuk

Stepan Mikhailovich Kirichuk (; ; born 18 May 1949) is a Belarusian–Russian politician and former railway worker who has been a member of the Tyumen City Duma since 9 September 2018. He has held various other executive, legislative, and administrative posts in the Tyumen Oblast region since the early 1990s. Kirichuk is a member of the United Russia party.

Biography

Stepan Kirichuk was born on 18 May 1949 to his father, Mikhail Yakovlyevich, and his mother, Maria Stepanovna.

In 1968, after graduating from the Brest College of Railway Transport, That the same year, he was appointed deputy head of the Sverdlovsk Railway's Tyumen branch.

He entered politics in 1990, when he became Chairman of the Kalinin District Council of People's Deputies. In 1991, he switched to the position of Chairman for the equivalent council in Tyumen City, and he held that seat until 1993. In January 1993, Kirichuk became the Head of Administration of Tyumen, holding that post until April 2005. Also in 2005, he defended his dissertation and became a Doctor of Social Sciences.

He has been elected to the governing bodies of the Union of Russian Cities, the Association of Siberian and Far Eastern Cities, and the Association of the Cities of the Urals. He was the president of the Association of Municipalities of Tyumen Oblast, and is an active member of the Municipal Academy of Russia.

In September 2018, Kirichuk was elected to the Tyumen City Duma in single-mandate constituency number 10, having run as a self-nominated candidate.

Personal life

Kirichuk is married to Galina Nikolayevna Kirichuk and has two sons.