Oleksandr Sin is an Ukrainian politician who was Mayor of Zaporizhia from late 2010 till late 2015.
Education
In 1983 Sin graduated from the Physics Department of the Kiev State University, in 2001 he graduated as economist in Zaporizhia State Engineering Academy, in 2005 he graduated as a state management magister in National Academy of Public Administration, Office of the President of Ukraine.
Career
Sin is ethnically Korean. After a career in the Soviet industry he became deputy mayor of Zaporizhia from 1994 till 1999 and till 2006 in the city"s administration. From 2006 till his election as Mayor Sin held various high post in the Zaporizhzhya Regional State Administration.
In October 2010 Sin was elected Mayor of Zaporizhia as a candidate of Batkivschyna.
In March 2012 Sin joined the Party of Regions. 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.
The same day Sin refused to resign from his post at the request of protesters of Euromaidan Zaporizhia. (At the time these Euromaidan protesters occupied the Zaporizhia Oblast regional state administration building)
In the 2015 Mayoral election of Zaporizhia Sin was not reelected after gaining in the first round of the election 9% of the vote (he was electable as a nonpartisan politician).
In this election Volodymyr Buriak was elected Mayor.
Politics
In December 2010 Sin left this party "so that no political context is a source of provocations and insinuations about medical I am grateful to the party, that it supported my decision".