Sevastopol City Council

The Sevastopol City Council (Crimean Tatar: Aqyar şeer şurası, Russian: Севастопольский городской совет, Ukrainian: Севастопольська міська рада) is the unicameral legislature of the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol.

The city state administration was first created in 1992 after the enactment of the law "On the Representative of the President of Ukraine", the issuance of the presidential decree "On the situation of the local public administration" on April 14, and the disposal of the President of Ukraine in Sevastopol number 9 on April 24.

In June 1994, the first direct election for the city council's chairman was held.

[1] In September 1998, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled that Sevastopol was denied a direct vote to elect the chairman of the Council due to the lack of a law on the status of the city.

Following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, the city council was proclaimed to have been unilaterally disbanded by Russian occupation officials and replaced by the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol, although the Council still operates de jure as the city's parliament in Ukraine.