Mykhaylo Pylypchuk

Mykhaylo Pylypchuk
Михайло Пилипчук
Member of the Kharkiv Oblast Council
Assumed office
26 March 2006
2nd Mayor of Kharkiv
In office
20 December 1996  21 March 2002
Preceded byYevhen Kushnaryov
Succeeded byVolodymyr Shumilkin
Personal details
Born
Mykhaylo Dmytrovych Pylypchuk

(1946-10-25) 25 October 1946
Koziatyn, Ukraine, Soviet Union
Political partyRevival

Mykhaylo Dmytrovych Pylypchuk (Ukrainian: Михайло Дмитрович Пилипчук; born on 25 October 1945), is a Ukrainian politician who had served as the 2nd mayor of Kharkiv from 1996 to 2002.

He had been a member of the Kharkiv Oblast Council, and a member of the Revival Party. He is known to be the liquidator of the Chernobyl accident.

He is an honored Builder of Ukraine, and was the awarded the State Order of Ukraine "For Merit" II and III degree, as well as the Commander's Cross for Merit of Poland.

He is a chairman of the International Boris Chichibabin Memorial Foundation.

He is an honorary citizen of Kharkiv in 2007.