Sevastopol City Council ( Ukrainian: Sevastopolska mіska rada ) is a local government body of the city of Sevastopol . In accordance with the legislation of Ukraine, the territory subordinate to the Sevastopol City Council is one of the administrative-territorial units of Ukraine and is divided into 4 administrative regions. The structure of two of them (Gagarinsky and Leninsky) includes only city blocks of Sevastopol, and the other two (Balaklava and Nakhimovsky) are also subordinate to the surrounding city ( Inkerman ), 28 villages, 1 village ( Ukrainian settlement ) [1] and more than 30 settlements without the status of a settlement (agrarian type or special settlements).
| Sevastopol City Council | |
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| Ukrainian Sevastopolska miska glad | |
 Coat of arms of Sevastopol | |
 The building of the Sevastopol City Council | |
| History of the city council | |
| Established | March 27, 1917 |
| Date of Abolition [1] | March 17, 2014 (de facto; renamed) [1] |
| Previous organ | Sevastopol City Council |
| Subsequent body [1] | Legislative Assembly of the city of Sevastopol ( de facto ) [1] |
| City Council Structure | |
| Chairman of the board | Yu. V. Doinikov (last) |
| : from the party | Party of Regions |
| :with | April 2010 |
| :by | March 17, 2014 (renaming of a post) |
| The number of deputies | 76 |
| Fractions | As of September 13, 2011:
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| Commissions | Commission of the VI convocation:
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| Last election | October 31, 2010 |
| Contacts | |
| Address | st. Lenin, 3, Sevastopol , 99011 |
| Notes | |
During the accession of Crimea to Russia at an extraordinary plenary meeting of the Sevastopol City Council on March 17, 2014, it was decided to rename the Sevastopol City Council to the Legislative Assembly of the city of Sevastopol [2] [3] [4] and with the subsequent declaration of the Crimea as part of the Russian Federation, the assembly began to function as the parliament of the subject of the Russian Federation - the city of federal significance of Sevastopol.
Ukraine does not recognize the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation and considers the territory of Sevastopol occupied by the Russian armed forces [5] . 100 out of 193 UN member states declared their commitment to the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders [6] [7] [8] .
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History
Soviet authority
On March 27, 1917, the Sevastopol Council of Deputies of the Army, Navy and Workers was created, which elected the Central Executive Committee. On December 16, 1917, the Military Revolutionary Committee took over the full power in the city. The Council created earlier was dissolved. At the end of December, elections were held for the new Council of Military and Worker Deputies [9] . Since October 1921, it became known as the Council of Workers, Peasants, Naval and Red Army Deputies. On December 24, 1939, the first elections to the Sevastopol City Council of working people's deputies were held under the new USSR Constitution of 1936 [9] .
With the outbreak of World War II, the Sevastopol authorities reorganized their work in accordance with the tasks of wartime. In early July 1942, all government bodies ceased their work. In 1943, in the city of Krasnodar , authorities and administrations of the city of Sevastopol were created. December 21, 1947 in Sevastopol, the first post-war elections of the city and district Soviets took place [9] .
In 1961, the Lenin , Nakhimovsky and Balaklava district executive committees were subordinated to the Sevastopol City Executive Committee, and from November 13, 1975 the district executive committee of the Gagarinsky district was added [9] .
As part of Ukraine
On the basis of the Law of Ukraine “On the Representative of the President of Ukraine”, the Decree of the President of Ukraine of April 14, 1992 “On the Regulation on Local State Administration” and the order of the Representative of the President of Ukraine in Sevastopol No. 9 of 04.24.1992, the Sevastopol City State Administration was established and activities Executive Committee of the Sevastopol City Council of People's Deputies. In June 1994, direct elections of the chairman of the City Council were held for the first time in Sevastopol [9] .
On August 2, 1995, on the basis of paragraph 1 of Presidential Decree No. 640/95 of 07.24.1995 “On regional, Kiev and Sevastopol city, district state administrations in the cities of Kiev and Sevastopol”, the existence of the previously created Sevastopol city state administration was confirmed [10] . In September 1998, by a decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Sevastopol was denied the right to directly vote for the chairman of the Council due to the absence of a law on the status of the city of Sevastopol. For this reason, the chairman of the city council was elected at a session by deputies of the city council [9] .
On March 26, 2006, 75 deputies from the following parties were elected to the Sevastopol City Council:
- Party of Regions - 45 seats (43.69%),
- Natalia Vitrenko Bloc “People’s Opposition” - 9 seats (8.24%),
- Bloc of Sergey Ivanov “For Sevastopol!” (City organizations of the PPPU and CDU) - 7 mandates (6.44%),
- Russian bloc - 5 seats (5.21%),
- KPU - 5 mandates (4.77%),
- “Block of Sergey Kondratyevsky” (city organizations “ Party of National Economic Development of Ukraine ” and “Young Ukraine”) - 4 mandates (3.88%).
The Sevastopol city organizations of the Party of Regions, the “ Russian Bloc ” and the Vitrenko Bloc agreed on March 30, 2006 to create a majority in the Sevastopol City Council. The leader of the local organization of the Party of Regions Valery Saratov was elected Chairman of the Sevastopol City Council [11] .
After the election, Valery Saratov in his speech to the deputies stated that the priority for the Party of Regions remains the adoption of the law on the hero city of Sevastopol, giving the Russian language the status of a second state, the maximum development of Ukrainian-Russian relations, strict adherence to the provisions of the agreement on the stay of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol [12] .
On April 26, 2006, the Sevastopol City Council decided to give the Russian language the status of a regional language, and on June 6, 2006 the City Council rejected the protest of the prosecutor and upheld the decision [13] . It should be noted that the decision of the City Council goes beyond the powers of local authorities of Ukraine established by the relevant law [14] .
On April 6, 2010, Valery Saratov was appointed the head of the Sevastopol City State Administration (which represents the presidential vertical of power) [15] .
In the 2007 parliamentary elections in Sevastopol, the Party of Regions won - 64.53%, the Communist Party of Ukraine - 10.30%, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine - 6.64% and the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko - 5.01% [ 16] .
In the regional elections in October 2010 , the Party of Regions received 46 mandates, the Russian bloc - 9 mandates, the Communist Party - 9 mandates, Strong Ukraine - 4 mandates, the People’s Party - 3 mandates, the Union - 3 mandates, the Anti-Corruption Party - 2 mandates, Party of Pensioners of Ukraine - 1 mandate. [17] .
In the 2012 parliamentary elections in Sevastopol, the Party of Regions won - 46.9%, the Communist Party of Ukraine - 29.46%, Batkivshchyna - 5.86%, Russian Bloc - 5.48%, BLOW - 5, won the most votes. 04% [18] .
Joining Russia and Reorganizing
During the accession of Crimea to Russia at an extraordinary plenary meeting of the Sevastopol City Council on March 17, 2014, it was decided to rename the Sevastopol City Council to the Legislative Assembly of the city of Sevastopol [3] [4] [19] , which, after the declaration of Crimea as part of the Russian Federation, began to work as the parliament of the subject Russian Federation - a city of federal significance of Sevastopol, the territory of which became the territory subordinated to the Sevastopol City Council by that time.
Authority
In accordance with article 25 of the law of Ukraine on local self-government, the city council independently resolves issues related to its competence by the Constitution and legislation of Ukraine. A number of especially important issues, such as the approval of the council’s rules, the appointment of a local referendum / local elections, the approval of the city’s charter, the formation of councils, the termination of powers of local governments and some others were resolved, according to article 26 of the law, exclusively at plenary meetings of the council. At the same time, being the city council with a special status (administrative unit of the first level), the Sevastopol City Council could not form an executive committee, instead, the Sevastopol City State Administration , whose head was appointed by the President of Ukraine, acted.
List of settlements subordinate to the Sevastopol City Council
City type: [20] [21]
- Sevastopol city
- Inkerman city (Balaklava district, Inkerman city council)
- village Kacha (Nakhimovsky district, Kachinsky village council)
Rural type: [22] [23]
- Andreevka village (Nakhimovsky district, Andreevsky village council)
- Verkhnesadovoye village (Nakhimovsky district, Verkhnesadovskiy village council)
- Vishnevoe village (Nakhimovsky district, Kachinsky village council)
- Goncharnoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Dalnee village (Nakhimovsky district, Verkhnesadovsky village council)
- Kamyshly village (Nakhimovsky district, Verkhnesadovsky village council)
- Kizilovoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Kolkhoznoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Novobobrovskoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Ozernoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Orlinoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Orlovka village (Nakhimovsky district, Kachinsky village council)
- Osipenko village (Nakhimovsky district, Kachinsky village council)
- Pavlovka village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Peredovoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Pirogovka village (Nakhimovsky district, Verhnesadovsky village council)
- Podgornoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Povorotnoye village (Nakhimovsky district, Verkhnesadovsky village council)
- Polyushko village (Nakhimovsky district, Kachinsky village council)
- Reserve village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Rodnoye village (Balaklava district, Ternovsky village council)
- Rodnikovskoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Rozoshoshanka village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Ternovka village (Balaklava district, Ternovsky village council)
- Tylovoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Frontovoye village (Nakhimovsky district, Verkhnyaya Sadovsky village council)
- Fruktovoye village (Nakhimovsky district, Verkhnesadovsky village council)
- Shirokoye village (Balaklava district, Orlinovsky village council)
- Solnechny village (Nakhimovsky district, Andreevsky village council)
Notes
- ↑ Sevastopol city registration card in the section “Administrative and territorial structure of Ukraine” on the website of the Verkhovna Rada (link checked on August 14, 2010) (in Ukrainian)
- ↑ Decision of the Sevastopol City Council of March 17, 2014 No. 7158 “On the renaming of the Sevastopol City Council as the Legislative Assembly of the hero city with special status of Sevastopol” . Sevastopol City Council (March 17, 2014). Date of treatment February 3, 2015. Archived on April 13, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 The City Council of Sevastopol became the Legislative Assembly . Correspondent.net (March 17, 2014). Date of treatment March 29, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 A sign appeared on the building of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol with the name and coat of arms of Russia . // SEVAS (March 26, 2014). Date of treatment March 29, 2014.
- ↑ Law of Ukraine “ On ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens and the legal regime in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine ” dated April 15, 2014
- ↑ UN General Assembly called for respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine
- ↑ For the resolution of the UN General Assembly confirming the territorial integrity of Ukraine, 100 countries from 193 UN member countries voted - Backing Ukraine's territorial integrity, UN Assembly declares Crimea referendum invalid.
- ↑ UNGA Resolution 68/262 “Territorial Integrity of Ukraine”
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 History of the City Council
- ↑ About region, Kyiv and Sevastopol city, district, district at the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol state administration (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Greeting of the head of the city council - title
- ↑ Sevastopol City Council headed by Valery Saratov
- ↑ “Sevastopol defended the status of the Russian language” Ukrainian Politics News - Correspondent
- ↑ Law of Ukraine “On Local Self-Government in Ukraine” (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Head of city state administration
- ↑ District data 225
- ↑ 2010 Elections. Official Voting Results for the Sevastopol City Council Elections | ForPost Sevastopol News
- ↑ How Crimea voted. Election results. Infographics | Crimea News today and the news of Sevastopol | Crimea 24
- ↑ At the session of the City Council, the results of the Crimean referendum on March 16, 2014 approved . Website of the Sevastopol City Council (March 17, 2014). Date of treatment March 17, 2014. Archived March 17, 2014.
- ↑ Cities of district significance
- ↑ Town-type settlements
- ↑ villages
- ↑ Villages