Stepan Kirichuk
{{Short description|Russian politician}}
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{{Family name hatnote|Mikhailovich|Kirichuk|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
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| name = Stepan Kirichuk
| native_name = Степан Киричук
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| office = Member of the Tyumen City Duma
| term_start = 9 September 2018
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| office2 = Russian Federation Senator
from Tyumen Oblast
| term_start2 = 23 March 2005
| term_end2 = 17 September 2018
| predecessor2 = Aleksandr Gavrin
| successor2 = Pavel Tarakanov
| office3 = Head of Administration of Tyumen
| term_start3 = January 1993
| term_end3 = 12 April 2005
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| successor3 = Vladimir Yakushev
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| birth_name = Stepan Mikhailovich Kirichuk
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|05|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = Mazary, Belarus, Soviet Union
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Stepan Mikhailovich Kirichuk ({{Langx|be|Сцяпан Міхайлавіч Кірычук}}; {{Langx|ru|Степан Михайлович Киричук}}; born 18 May 1949) is a Belarusian–Russian politician and former railway worker who has been a member of the Tyumen City Duma since 9 September 2018. He has held various other executive, legislative, and administrative posts in the Tyumen Oblast region since the early 1990s. Kirichuk is a member of the United Russia party.
Biography
Stepan Kirichuk was born on 18 May 1949{{Cite web |title=Структура |url=http://council.gov.ru/structure/persons/186/ |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=Совет Федерации Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации |date=28 July 2018 |language=ru}} to his father, Mikhail Yakovlyevich, and his mother, Maria Stepanovna.
In 1968, after graduating from the Brest College of Railway Transport, he began working as a repairman at track machine station number 170 in Tyumen.{{cn|date=May 2024}} From 1968 to 1970, he served in the Soviet Army. Upon returning, he continued working on Tyumen's railroads, first as a track worker, then a foreman, and then a chief engineer. In 1977, he was promoted to head of the Tyumen track length. In 1985, he graduated from the Ural Electromechanical Institute of Railway Engineers.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tyumen-city.ru/gorodtumeny/pocetniegrajdane/pg4/77/ |title=Почётные граждане Тюмени |access-date=2014-06-25 |archive-date=2014-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824082749/http://www.tyumen-city.ru/gorodtumeny/pocetniegrajdane/pg4/77/ |url-status=live }} That the same year, he was appointed deputy head of the Sverdlovsk Railway's Tyumen branch.{{Cite web |url=http://er.ru/persons/299/ |title=Степан Киричук на сайте ВПП «Единая Россия» |access-date=2014-06-25 |archive-date=2014-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703063416/http://er.ru/persons/299/ |url-status=live }}
He entered politics in 1990, when he became Chairman of the Kalinin District Council of People's Deputies. In 1991, he switched to the position of Chairman for the equivalent council in Tyumen City, and he held that seat until 1993.{{Cite web |title=Киричук Степан Михайлович |url=https://er.ru/person/e1cfbc1c-8081-4973-b9e8-e771b6a5144b |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=Единая Россия |language=ru}} In January 1993, Kirichuk became the Head of Administration of Tyumen, holding that post until April 2005.{{Cite web |title=Киричук Степан Михайлович – ГородТ |url=https://gorod-t.info/people/obshchestvo-upravlenie/kirichuk-stepan-mikhaylovich/ |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=gorod-t.info}} Also in 2005, he defended his dissertation{{where|date=May 2024}} and became a Doctor of Social Sciences.{{Cite web|url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/kirichuk-stepan-mihaylovich|title=Киричук, Степан Михайлович|publisher=ТАСС|accessdate=2020-05-23}}
He has been elected to the governing bodies of the Union of Russian Cities, the Association of Siberian and Far Eastern Cities, and the Association of the Cities of the Urals. He was{{when|date=May 2024}} the president of the Association of Municipalities of Tyumen Oblast, and is an active member of the Municipal Academy of Russia. Kirichuk was also a member of the scientific and editorial board of the Great Tyumen Encyclopedia in 2004.{{cn|date=May 2024}}
On 23 March 2005, Kirichuk was sworn in as a Senator in the Federation Council, and he represented Tyumen Oblast in that Council until 2018. From 25 November 2011 to 14 September 2014, he served as the first Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Self-Government and Northern Affairs.{{cn|date=May 2024}}
In July 2006, he was elected President of the All-Russian Congress of Municipalities.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pfo.ru/?id=61345 |title=ОКМО на сайте Приволжского федерального округа |access-date=2014-06-25 |archive-date=2014-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701064932/http://pfo.ru/?id=61345 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.xn--j1aeec.xn--p1ai/?id=86 |title=Степан Киричук на сайте ОКМО |accessdate=2014-06-25 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305120158/http://www.xn--j1aeec.xn--p1ai/?id=86 |archivedate=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead}}
In September 2018, Kirichuk was elected to the Tyumen City Duma in single-mandate constituency number 10, having run as a self-nominated candidate. In the municipal parliament, he is the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the City Duma on City Public Administration.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nashgorod.ru/news/politics/08-10-2018/byvshiy-mer-tyumeni-stepan-kirichuk-izbran-predsedatelem-komissii-na-zarplatu |title=Бывший мэр Тюмени Степан Киричук избран председателем комиссии, на зарплату {{!}} Наш Город |access-date=2018-10-22 |archive-date=2018-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022194142/http://www.nashgorod.ru/news/politics/08-10-2018/byvshiy-mer-tyumeni-stepan-kirichuk-izbran-predsedatelem-komissii-na-zarplatu |url-status=live }}
Personal life
Kirichuk is married to Galina Nikolayevna Kirichuk and has two sons.[https://vsluh.ru/news/society/24297 Степан Киричук заступит на пост главы Тюмени в третий раз]
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