| Izet Hdanov | |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Office: | Presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea |
| Status: | Acting |
| Term Start: | 2 December 2018 |
| Term End: | 25 June 2019 |
| President: | Petro Poroshenko |
| Predecessor: | Borys Babin |
| Successor: | Anton Korynevych |
| Birth Date: | 16 September 1983 |
| Birth Place: | Fergana, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan) |
Izet Rustemovych Hdanov (uk|Iзет Рустемович Гданов; born 16 September 1983) is a Ukrainian politician and activist[1] of Crimean Tatar ethnicity born to deported Crimean Tatars in the Soviet Uzbekistan.
In 2006 Hdanov graduated from the National Academy of the State Tax Service of Ukraine.[2] In 2009–2011 he served as a deputy minister in the Crimean Government.[2] In 2012 Hdanov suffered an assassination attempt when two unknown younger people hit him on the head with a hammer.[2]
In 2015, Hdanov was among the leaders of an energy blockade with the Russian occupied Crimea.[3]
As a leader of the "Community council in Crimean affairs" and a representative of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People was very critical about former presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea Natalia Popovych.[4]
In 2017 he was appointed as the first deputy presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea. Following removal of Babin,[5] Hdanov ex officio acts as presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea.
On 8 April 2022, the Kyiv District Court of Simferopol sentenced Hdanov to 8 years in a strict regime colony for "participation in the activities of an illegal armed group operating on the territory of a foreign state for purposes contrary to the interests of the Russian Federation", accusing him of involvement in the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion.[6]