How Vinnytsia City Council works?

Executive Committee of the City Council is the executive body formed by Vinnytsia City Council and is accountable to and under the control of Vinnytsia City Council, and is also under the control of the relevant executive bodies with regard to the exercise of its powers.

The Executive Committee of the City Council is headed by the Mayor. The Executive Committee of Vinnytsia City Council includes the Chairman of the City Council, Deputy Mayors, Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Committee, heads of executive bodies of the City Council, starostas of affiliated communities, other persons (15 members in total).

Vinnytsia City Council, within the approved structures and staff, establishes departments, divisions and other executive bodies to exercise the powers within their competence.

The executive bodies are accountable to and under the control of Vinnytsia City Council, its Executive Committee, and the Mayor.

Currently, there are 33 executive bodies of Vinnytsia City Council.

Twin cities are cities located in different countries, between which there are permanent friendly ties for mutual acquaintance with life, history and culture, in order to achieve better mutual understanding, strengthen cooperation and friendship between peoples of different countries, as well as exchange experience in solving similar problems facing city authorities and organizations.

The cities cooperation consists in the exchange of delegations, business and educational opportunities, artistic projects and sports competitions, various projects to study and understand historical, cultural, life similarities and differences, exchange information about urban life and urban management.

Vinnytsia develops twin and partner relations with cities around the world. These relationships have created examples of successful cooperation over the past years that will allow the city to facilitate activities in support of the city's priorities and ambitions. Our partnerships with cities focus on a variety of activities that have developed and evolved over time. Today, we attach great importance to ensuring that these city-to-city ties are strategically focused and help Vinnytsia achieve key strategic goals in all areas of city development.

The city of Vinnytsia and its territorial community have a glorious centuries-old history. Remains of ancient settlements indicate that its territory has been inhabited since ancient times. According to the existing historiographical tradition, the city is founded in 1363, when after the victory in the Battle of the Blue Waters (1362) Grand Duke Olgerd of Lithuania, liberating Podillia from the Golden Horde, created the Podillia principality under the rule of Koriatovych princes and ordered to fortify the place. In 1393 the separate Podillia principality was liquidated, and the first Vinnytsia headman was appointed in the city. At the same time, a bourgeois community was formed, the existence of which was legally recognized in the middle of the 15th century. Vinnytsia had the right to own city land, auctions and fairs, trade and industrial establishments and other self-governing rights. From the beginning of the 16th century, the burghers regularly elected viits to govern the city.