Prime Minister of Crimea

The chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea^[1] (prime minister of Crimea),^{[citation needed]} is the head of government of the Republic of Crimea (previously the Autonomous Republic of Crimea located in the southern region of Ukraine).

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Republic of Crimea
Coat of arms of Crimea
Incumbent Yury Gotsanyuk since 20 September 2019
Nominator	Head of the Republic of Crimea
Appointer	State Council of Crimea
Term length	5 years
Inaugural holder	Vitaliy Kurashyk
Formation	March 22, 1991 (as Prime Minister of Autonomous Republic of Crimea (in Ukraine)) March 18, 2014 (as Prime Minister of Republic of Crimea (in Russia))
Deputy	Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea

Until 2014, the prime minister, whose nomination was proposed by the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea (Crimean parliament) with the approval of the President of Ukraine and then the Crimean parliament, presided over the Council of Ministers of Crimea.^[2][3]

Following the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, the prime minister has been appointed by the head of the Republic of Crimea, once a candidate for the prime minister has been approved by the State Council of Crimea (Crimean parliament). The head of the Republic of Crimea could lead the Council of Ministers of Crimea, but he must also be approved by the State Council.^[4]

List

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

  Independent
  Republican Party of Crimea
  Agrarian Party of Ukraine
  People's Party of Crimea
  People's Democratic Party
  Ukrainian Platform "Sobor"
  Our Ukraine
  Party of Regions
  Labour Ukraine

#		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Political Party	Legislature (Election)	Presidential representative
	1		Vitaliy Kurashyk (born in 1939)	22 March 1991	20 May 1993	Independent	I (1991)		Vacant (1992–1994)
	2		Borys Samsonov (1938–2014)	20 May 1993	4 February 1994	Independent
	3		Yuriy Meshkov (1945–2019)	4 February 1994	6 October 1994[a]	Republican Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya")	II (1994)		Valeriy Horbatov (1994–1996)
	4		Anatoliy Franchuk (1935–2021)	6 October 1994	22 March 1995	People's Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya")
	5		Anatoliy Drobotov (born in 1951)	22 March 1995	31 March 1995[b]	Republican Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya")
	6		Anatoliy Franchuk (1935–2021)	31 March 1995	26 January 1996	People's Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya")
	7		Arkadiy Demydenko (1950–2005)	26 January 1996	4 June 1997	Independent			Dmytro Stepanyuk (1996–1997)
									Vasyl Kiselyov (1997–1999)
	8		Anatoliy Franchuk (1935–2021)	4 June 1997	27 May 1998	People's Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya")			Vasyl Kiselyov (1997–1999)
	9		Serhiy Kunitsyn (born in 1960)	27 May 1998	25 July 2001	People's Democratic Party (Electoral Bloc of Kunitsyn)	II (1998)		Vasyl Kiselyov (1997–1999)
									Anatoliy Korniychuk (1999–2002)
	10		Valeriy Horbatov (born in 1955)	25 July 2001	29 April 2002	Independent			Anatoliy Korniychuk (1999–2002)
	11		Serhiy Kunitsyn (born in 1960)	29 April 2002	20 April 2005	People's Democratic Party (Electoral Bloc of Kunitsyn)	III (2002)		Oleksandr Didenko (2002–2005)
	12		Anatoliy Matviienko[5] (1953-2020)	20 April 2005	21 September 2005	Ukrainian Platform "Sobor"[5]
	13		Anatoliy Burdiuhov (born in 1958)	23 September 2005	2 June 2006	Our Ukraine			Volodymyr Kulish (2005–2006)
	14		Viktor Plakida[6] (born in 1956)	2 June 2006	17 March 2010[7][8][9]	Party of Regions[10]	IV (2006)		Hennadiy Moskal (2006–2007)
									Vacant (2007)
									Viktor Shemchuk (2007)
									Volodymyr Khomenko (2007)
									Vacant (2008)
									Leonid Zhunko (2008–2010)
	15		Vasyl Dzharty (1958–2011)	17 March 2010[11]	17 August 2011[12]	Party of Regions	V (2010)		Serhiy Kunitsyn (2010)
									Vacant (2010)
									Volodymyr Yatsuba (2011)
									Viktor Plakida (acting in 2011)
	-		Pavlo Burlakov (born in 1963)	17 August 2011	8 November 2011	Party of Regions			Viktor Plakida (acting in 2011)
	16		Anatolii Mohyliov[2] (born in 1955)	8 November 2011[13][14]	27 February 2014	Party of Regions			Viktor Plakida (acting in 2011–2012)
									Viktor Plakida (2012–2014)

Russian annexation of Crimea ("independent Crimea")

  Russian Unity

#		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Political Party
	-		Sergey Aksyonov[c] (born in 1972)	27 February 2014[15]	17 March 2014	Russian Unity

Republic of Crimea

  United Russia

#		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Political Party	Legislature (Election)	Head of Republic
	1 (17)		Sergey Aksyonov (born in 1972)	17 March 2014	9 September 2014	United Russia	Vacant		Sergey Aksyonov (since 2014)
				9 September 2014[16]	20 September 2019		I (2014)
	2 (18)		Yury Gotsanyuk (born in 1966)	20 September 2019	1 October 2019	United Russia	II (2019)
				1 October 2019[17]	Incumbent

Notes

1. Promoted himself to become the President of Crimea.
2. Not recognized by Ukraine.
3. Installed during the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and not approved by the President of Ukraine.

See also

• List of Chairmen of the Executive Committee of Crimea