Galina Viktorovna Danilchenko^{[lower-alpha 3][6][7][8]} (born 5 July 1964) is a Russian and Ukrainian accountant and politician who was installed by Russia as the acting mayor of Melitopol during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, following the kidnapping of Ivan Fedorov by the Russian military. She was a former member of the Melitopol City Council, elected in 2015, and became its secretary soon thereafter.

Danilchenko was born 5 July 1964^[9] in Orlovo, a village in the Melitopol district.^[10] She studied at the Melitopol Institute of Agricultural Mechanization [uk] She graduated from the Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. She worked in a kindergarten for a few weeks and worked in a laboratory at a hydraulic tractor plant.^[10]

After completing a specialization in economics and auditing, she worked as an accountant at a motor plant. In 2000, she began working as an accountant for Melitopol Plain Bearing Plant until 2015.^[10] She is now the director of the factory.^[11] The company is owned by Yevhen Balytskyi.^[12]

Balitsky suggested that Danilchenko enter politics.^[10] Until 2015, she was a member of the Party of Regions.^[12] In 2015, she was elected to the Melitopol City Council as a member of the Opposition Bloc^[11] and was appointed its secretary by Balytskyi soon thereafter.^[10] In 2021, Danylchenko was nominated to the position of director of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Contact Centre.^[11]

Danilchenko lives in Spaske/Spasskoye [uk] in the Melitopol district.^[9] She voted for Viktor Yushchenko but was not satisfied by his presidency. In 2017, she called Petro Poroshenko the worst president, and stated that she regretted voting for him.^[10]