Mayor of Minsk

Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee
Старшыня Мінскага гарадскога выканаўчага камітэта (Belarusian)
Председатель Минского городского исполнительного комитета (Russian)
Coat of arms of Minsk
since 3 September 2020
Residence8 Independence Avenue, Minsk[1]
AppointerPresidential appointment
Inaugural holderIvan Chodkiewicz
Formation1496
March 1917
Websiteminsk.gov.be (Archived)

The Mayor of Minsk,[a] officially the Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee[b] is the chief executive of the city of Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The mayor of Minsk is appointed by the President of Belarus,[2][3] and has existed in its current form since the Russian Revolution of 1917 established the Minsk Urban Executive Committee in the city. Previously, Minsk was self-governing from the granting of Magdeburg rights in 1496[4] until its integration into the Russian Empire.[5]

List of mayors (since 1917)

1917–1941

  • Boris Pozern (1917)
  • Isidor Lyubimov (1917)
  • Kārlis Landers (1917)
  • Viktar Yarkin (1918–1919)
  • Kazimierz Cichowski (1919)
  • Fritz Küsse (1920–1921)
  • Adolf Getner (1922–1923)
  • Siarhiey Karp (1924)
  • Adam Slavinskyi (1924)
  • Stsiapan Yatskievich (1924–1929)
  • Nichypar Aksiuchyts (1929–1930)
  • Iosif Balodzka (1931–1933)
  • Anton Karanieuski (1933–1934)
  • Yemialian Zhukovich (1934–1937)
  • Kanstantsin Budaryn (1940–1941)[6]

1941–1943

1944–1991

  • Kanstantsin Budaryn (1944–1945)
  • Ivan Paromchyk (1945–1946)
  • Kanstantsin Dluhasheuski (1946–1954)
  • Vasil Sharapau (1954–1968)
  • Mikhail Kovalev (1968–1977)
  • Gennady Bartoshevich (1977)
  • Stanislau Lukashevich (1977–1980)
  • Heorhiy Tarazievich (1980–1983)
  • Valiery Piachennikau (1983–1985)
  • Uladzimir Mikhasiou (1985–1990)
  • Mikhail Marynich (1990–1991)[6]

1991–present

Notes

  1. ^ Belarusian: Кіраўнік Мінска, romanizedKiraunik Minska; Russian: Глава Минска, romanizedGlava Minska
  2. ^ Belarusian: Старшыня Мінскага гарадскога выканаўчага камітэта, romanized: Starshynia Minskaha haradskoha vykanauchaha kamiteta; Russian: Председател Минского городского исполнительного комитета, romanized: Predsedatel Minskogo gorodskogo ispolnitelnogo komiteta

References

  1. ^ "Минский городской исполнительный комитет" [Minsk Urban Executive Committee]. Minsk Urban Executive Committee (in Russian). Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Lukashenko appoints new Minsk mayor". Official website of the Republic of Belarus. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  3. ^ "New Minsk mayor appointed". Belarusian Telegraph Agency. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  4. ^ "Minsk before 1917". JewishGen. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  5. ^ "The Relation Between Belarus and the Russian Empire". G4 Tours. 5 April 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  6. ^ a b c "Руководители города (с 1879 года)" [City heads (since 1879)]. Minsk Urban Executive Committee (in Russian). Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  7. ^ Rein, Leonid (2011). The Kings and the Pawns: Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II. Berghahn Books. p. 284. ISBN 978-1-84545-776-1.
  8. ^ Эм, Васіль Дэ (8 June 2019). "20 нечаканых фактаў пра Вацлава Іваноўскага" [20 unexpected facts about Vaclaŭ Ivanoŭski]. Радыё Свабода (in Belarusian). Retrieved 12 December 2021.