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Verkhovna Rada of Crimea Верховна Рада Криму Верховный Совет Крыму Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	19 June 1991; 32 years ago (1991-06-19)
Disbanded	15 March 2014; 10 years ago (2014-03-15)
Preceded by	Crimean Regional Council
Succeeded by	State Council of Crimea
Seats	100
Elections
Last election	2010
Meeting place
Building of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Simferopol
Website
https://www.rada.crimea.ua/ (archived)
Constitution
Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Verkhovna Rada of Crimea or the Supreme Council of Crimea, officially the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, ^[a] was the acting Ukrainian legislative body for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea before the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.

The last election of parliament took place on 31 October 2010 (see 2010 Crimean parliamentary election) and was won by the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine.

On 27 February 2014, unidentified armed men took over the parliament and hoist the flag of Russia over it. On 15 March 2014 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially dissolved the parliament. ^[1] On 17 March 2014, one day before the Russian annexation of Crimea, ^[2] a puppet State Council of Crimea was established in place of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea.

Last election

Chairpersons

Regional executive committee

• Mikhail Kuzmenko (1954-1956)
• Ivan Filippov (1956-1959)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1959-1963)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1963-1964, industrial)
• Nikolai Moiseev (1963-1964, agrarian)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1964-1965)
• Trofim Chemodurov (1966-1979)
• Yuri Bakhtin (1979-1985)
• Alexander Roshchupkin (1985-1989)
• Vitaly Kurashik (1989-1991)

Regional council

• Mykola Bahrov (1991-1994)
• Sergei Tsekov (1994-1995)
• Yevhen Suprunyuk (1995-1996)
• Vasily Kiselev (1996-1997)
• Anatoliy Hrytsenko (1997-1998)
• Leonid Hrach (1998-2002)
• Boris Deich (2002-2006)
• Anatoliy Hrytsenko (2006-2010)
• Vladimir Konstantinov (2010-2014)

See also

• State Council of Crimea

References

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