Type Unicameral Phone +380 44 202 7393 | Seats 120 Seat 120 | |
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Mayor Vitali Klitschko, Solidarity
Since June 5, 2014 Secretary Oleksiy Reznikov, Solidarity
Since June 19, 2014 Political groups 52 Solidarity
22 Self Reliance
17 Fatherland
15 Unity
14 Freedom Address Khreschatyk St, 36, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01044 Hours Closed today SundayClosedMonday9AM–6PMTuesday9AM–6PMWednesday9AM–6PMThursday9AM–6PMFriday9AM–4:45PMSaturdayClosed Last election Ukrainian local elections, 2015 Similar Kyiv City State Administr, КИЕВСК ГОРОДС РОДИЛЬ, President Administr of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Scie, State Statistics Service of Profiles | ||
Kyiv city council
Kyiv City Council (Ukrainian: Київська міська рада – Kyivs'ka mis'ka rada), better known as Kyivrada (Ukrainian: Київрада), is the city council of Kyiv municipality, the highest representative body of the city community. The members of city council are directly elected by Kyivans and the council is chaired by the Mayor of Kyiv (who is also directly elected in a separate election independent of the council election) or the City Council Secretary (elected among the council members). The deputies are elected for five-year terms.
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The council meets in a 1950s City Council building constructed in neo-classical Stalinist architectural style on Khreschatyk, the city's main street.
The most recent Kiev local election (including Mayoral elections) took place on 25 October 2015.
History
Empress of Russia Catherine the Great's municipal reform created Kiev's city council in 1870.
In its 1871 first municipal elections just under 6,000 of Kiev's 70,500 inhabitants were qualified to vote.
The first post-Soviet democratic elections of the Kiev City Council took place on 4 March 1990.
The first ceremonial raising of the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag in modern times took place on 24 July 1990 at the flagstaff of the City Council, two years before the flag was officially adopted as the National flag of the Ukrainian state (1992). July 24 was later marked as National Flag Day in Kiev (only). Beginning with 2004, 23 August is celebrated as the Day of the National Flag (in all Ukraine).
During the Euromaidan-protest from 1 December 2013 till 16 February 2014 Kiev's Town Hall was occupied by protesters; this forced the City Council to meet in the Solomianka Raion state administration building instead.