
Viktor Simkanych
- Dovzhansk, Zakarpattia region
- Dovzhanska territorial community
- Incumbent mayor
Mayor of Staroushytske since December 2017. He was re-elected in 2020. In 2002-2008 he worked at Kamianets-Podilskyi Children and Youth Sports School №5 as a coach and teacher of taekwondo WTF. From 2005 to 2014 he worked as a WTF taekwondo coach and teacher at the Khmelnytskyi Youth Sports School. In 2005-2014 he worked as a veterinarian at Nefedivske AF LLC. From 2015 to December 2017, he served as the head of the Grushka Village Council of the village of Grushka, Kamianets-Podilskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region. From 2010 to 2015, he was a deputy of the Nefediv village council of Kamianets-Podilskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region.
Former head of Talayivka village council. Since 2007, she has worked in Bezuhlivka village council, first as a clerk, then as a secretary since 2011, and since 2012 as the head of Bezuhlivka village council. In November, she was elected head of the Talayivka village council. In 2022, she was awarded the Medal of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov “For Assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine”.
Mayor of Orikhiv from the Opposition Platform – For Life party since 2020. In 1995, he started working as a teacher at a school in the Orikhiv district. After a while, he became the head of the housing and communal services department of the Komyshuvakha village council of Orikhiv district.
Mayor of Nizhyn since October 2020. From 2009 to 2018, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Chernihiv Regional Organization of the Center for Political Studies and Analysis. In 2014, he was elected to the position of the First Deputy Chairman of the Chernihiv Regional Council, as well as the Chairman of the Chernihiv Regional Organization of the People’s Front. From November 27, 2014 to August 29, 2019, he was a Member of the Parliament of Ukraine of the VIII convocation, Chairman of the Batkivshchyna faction. Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Construction, Urban Development and Housing and Communal Services.
Since December 01, 2020 – Mayor of Berdychiv
From 2007 to 2020 – Head and Chief Physician of the Center for Veterinary Medicine “Aibolit”.
1995 – Head of the Berdychiv Veterinary Pharmacy of Zhytomyrzovetpostach OJSC.
1990 – a veterinarian at the Józefo-Mykolaiv Sugar Plant. Since 2016 – Member of the Supervisory Board of Zhytomyr National Agroecological University.
Since 2014 – Member of the Supervisory Board of the Veterinary Faculty of the Kyiv National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine.
Since 2014 – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Tulchyn College of Veterinary Medicine of BNAU.
From 2012 to 2014, he was a member of the Public Council of the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine.
From 2011 to the present, he has been the head of the regional branch of the Association of Veterinary Medicine Specialists of Ukraine in Zhytomyr region. On April 15, 2011, by the order of the State Committee of Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine No. 33-K, he was awarded the award “For Merit in the Development of Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine”. In 2020, by the order of the Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Union “Krayina” No. 2217, he was awarded the medal “For Service to Ukraine”.