| Oleksandr Sin | |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Office: | Mayor of Zaporizhzhia |
| Term Start: | 2010 |
| Term End: | 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Yevhen Kartashov Volodymyr Kaltsev (acting) |
| Successor: | Volodymyr Buriak |
| Birth Date: | 12 April 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Ordzhonikidze, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (Pokrov, Ukraine) |
| Party: | Independent |
| Otherparty: | Batkivshchyna (until 2010) Party of Regions (2012–2014) |
Oleksandr Chiensanovych Sin (uk|Олександр Чєнсанович Сін; born on 12 April 1961)[1] is a Ukrainian politician who was Mayor of Zaporizhzhia from late 2010 to late 2015.[2]
Sin is ethnically Korean.[3] In 1983 Sin graduated from the Physics Department of the Kiev State University, in 2001 he graduated as economist in Zaporizhzhia State Engineering Academy, in 2005 he graduated as a state management magister in National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.[1] [4] After a career in the Soviet industry he became deputy mayor of Zaporizhzhia from 1994 until 1999 and until 2006 in the city's administration.[1] From 2006 until his election as Mayor Sin held various high post in the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration.[1]
In October 2010 Sin was elected Mayor of Zaporizhzhia as a candidate of Batkivschyna.[5] In December 2010 Sin left this party "so that no political context is a source of provocations and insinuations about me. I am grateful to the party, that it supported my decision".[6]
In March 2012 Sin joined the Party of Regions.[7]
The Party of Regions expelled Sin, since they said he was responsible for "policy failure and the collapse of the urban economy", on 24 February 2014.[8] The same day Sin refused to resign from his post at the request of protesters of Euromaidan Zaporizhzhia,[9] who were occupying the Zaporizhzhia Oblast regional state administration building at that time.[10]
Sin unsuccessfully stood for re-election as a nonpartisan politician[11] in the 2015 mayoral election, receiving 9% of the vote in the first round of the election.[12] [13] [14] [15] He was succeeded by Volodymyr Buriak.[16]