President of Crimea

{{Short description|Ukrainian political position (1994–95)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox official post

|post = President

|body = Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Президент Республіки Крим

|insignia = Emblem of Crimea.svg

|insigniasize = 125px

|insigniacaption = Coat of arms of Crimea

|image =

|imagesize = 120px

|imagecaption = Yuriy Meshkov

|style =

|residence =

|appointer = Direct popular vote

|appointer_qualified =

|precursor =

|formation = 16 February 1994

|first = Yuriy Meshkov

|last = Yuriy Meshkov

|abolished = 17 March 1995

|succession = Vice-Prime Minister of Crimea

|salary =

}}

{{Politics of Crimea}}

The President of the Republic of Crimea ({{langx|uk|Президент Республіки Крим}}; {{langx|ru|Президент Республики Крым}}, {{langx|crh|Qırım Cumhuriyetiniñ Prezidenti, Къырым Джумхурийетининъ Президенти}}) was the head of the then-styled Republic of Crimea, Ukraine from 16 February 1994, to the time of the liquidation of this position on 17 March 1995.{{Cite Ukrainian law|type=Verkhovna Rada law|number=93/95-вр|law=92%2F95%2D%E2%F0|name=On the termination of the Constitution and some laws of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea|date=17 March 1995}}{{cite web|url=http://uazakon.com/document/tpart07/isx07753.htm|title=On the President of the Republic of Crimea|access-date=7 January 2009|work=Verkhovna Rada of Crimea|publisher=Laws of Ukraine|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717125650/http://uazakon.com/document/tpart07/isx07753.htm|archive-date=17 July 2011|url-status=dead}} The post was liquidated as it contradicted the Constitution of Ukraine.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

The first round of voting in the Crimean presidential elections was held on 16 January 1994, and on 30 January, the second round was held. With 72.9% of the vote,[https://books.google.com/books?id=i1C2MHgujb4C&dq=26+February+1992++Crimean+constitution&pg=PA194 Russians in the Former Soviet Republics] by Pål Kolstø, Indiana University Press, 1995, {{ISBN|0253329175}} (page 194){{cite web|url=http://www.assembly-weu.org/en/documents/sessions_ordinaires/rpt/2001/1761.pdf|title=New developments in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine|access-date=7 August 2007|date=4 December 2001|work=Assembly of WEU|page=24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928224959/http://www.assembly-weu.org/en/documents/sessions_ordinaires/rpt/2001/1761.pdf|archive-date=28 September 2007}} the pro-Russian politician Yuriy Meshkov was declared the winner. He was the only person to hold the post of President of the Republic of Crimea.