Yuriy Vilkul

Yurii Vilkul
Юрій Вілкул
Acting Mayor of Kryvyi Rih
Secretary of the Kryvyi Rih City Council
Assumed office
August 25, 2021
Preceded byOleksandr Kotlyar
(Олександр Котляр)
Mayor of Kryvyi Rih
In office
November 3, 2010  December 17, 2020
Preceded byYuriy Liubonenko
Succeeded byKostyantyn Pavlov
Personal details
Born
Yurii Hryhorovych Vilkul

(1949-11-14) 14 November 1949
Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Nationality Soviet Union (1949-1991)
 Ukraine (1991–present)
Political partyCPSU
Party of Regions
Opposition Bloc
Vilkul Bloc – Ukrainian Perspective
Children2, including Olexander
Alma materKryvyi Rih National University
AwardsOrder of Merit (Ukraine)
Order of Danylo Halytsky
Medal for Assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Badge "For the Merit to the City"
Honored Science and Technology Figure of Ukraine
State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Yurii Hryhorovych Vilkul (Ukrainian: Юрій Григорович Вілкул; born 14 November, 1949) is a Ukrainian politician, who served first as elected mayor of Kryvyi Rih from 2010 to 2020, then later again as acting mayor since 2021. He is currently a member of Vilkul Bloc – Ukrainian Perspective, which is led by his son Oleksandr Vilkul.