Eduard Gurwitz

Date of Birth: 30.01.1948

Eduard Iosifovich Gurwitz - Mayor of Odessa from 1994-1998 and 2005-2010. He was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in 1994 and 1998 (self-nominated), in 2002 as part of the list of the Our Ukraine party, and in 2012 as part of the list of the SCHLAG party.

Place of Birth. Education. He was born in Mogilev-Podolsk in the Vinnytsia Oblast. In 1971, he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Construction with a focus on traffic engineering.

Career. He began his career in 1966 as a student, working as a helper, loader, and foreman on construction sites.

From 1973-1976, after graduating and completing his military service, he worked as a foreman, construction supervisor, and chief construction supervisor in Moldova.

From 1977-1987, he worked in various construction companies in Odessa as a foreman, chief supervisor, and head of a joint section.

In 1987, with the start of the cooperative movement, he founded the experimental-creative studio cooperative EcoPolis. He led the company until May 1990, when he was elected chairman of the October District Council of Odessa. In 1991, he was elected chairman of the October District Committee.

1994-1998 - People's Deputy of Ukraine for the II electoral district. In July 1994, he was elected mayor of Odessa. In March 1998, he ran again for the mayor's office. He won the election by a margin of 70,000 votes against the next competitor, Ruslan Bodelan, but the election results were declared invalid. Gurwitz was not allowed to participate in the re-election. In April 2005, the Primorsky Court of Odessa ordered Gurwitz to be registered as the mayor of the city and overturned the 2002 decision on the election of Mayor Bodelan.

Since 1998 - People's Deputy of Ukraine for the III electoral district. Member of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada for Spirituality and Culture issues.

In 2002, he ran again for the mayor's office of Odessa.

2002-2005 - People's Deputy of Ukraine for the IV electoral district from Our Ukraine of Viktor Yushchenko (No. 46 on the list). Member of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada for Foreign Affairs.

From April 2006 to November 2010 - Mayor of Odessa. In the autumn of 2010, he lost the elections to Alexey Kostusev, the former head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine and former deputy of the Party of Regions.

2012-2014 - People's Deputy of Ukraine for the VII electoral district, he was elected in 17th place on the list of Vitali Klitschko's SCHLAG party. Chairman of the Subcommittee on Parliamentary Ethics of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada for Organizational Issues, Parliamentary Ethics, and Ensuring the Activities of the Verkhovna Rada.

Impartial.

In 2015, in the mayoral elections of Odessa, Eduard Gurwitz took 3rd place with 22,475 votes.

Family. Married. Four children: daughter Evgenia (1975), sons Stanislav (1983, lives in Haifa (Israel)), Alexander (2008), and daughter Elena (2010), as well as three grandchildren.

08.01.2024