Eduard Yosypovych Hurvits (Ukrainian: Едуард Йосипович Гурвіц; Yiddish: רד יאָסיפּאָוויטש גוּרוויץ, romanized: Eduard Iosipovitsh Gurvitz; born 30 January 1948) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the 71st mayor of Odesa on two occasions; first from July 1994 to 26 May 1998, and then from 5 April 2005 to 6 November 2010.

Remaining in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), Hurvits became an early supporter of Viktor Yushchenko and the Orange Revolution, and was re-elected as mayor in April 2005.

Hurvits subsequently re-entered the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform in 2012, serving until the Revolution of Dignity.

Eduard Yosypovych Hurvits was born on 30 January 1948 in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, in the Vinnytsia Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

Hurvits was drafted into the Soviet Army in 1971, where he served as a private in the Strategic Rocket Forces.

Due to pressure by then-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, the Kropyvnytskyi Regional Court of Appeal declared the elections void.

[1]Hurvits survived two assassination attempts and two of his close associates - Ihor Svoboda and Serhiy Varlamov - were kidnapped.

[7] However, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc won no more than 63 seats, and thus Hurvits did not return to the Verkhovna Rada.