The Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, commonly referred to as the Dnipropetrovsk CPU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created on February 27, 1932, and abolished in August 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine or the First Secretary of the Republic.
List of First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Dnipropetrovsk Region
Name Term of office Life years Start End First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party Vladimir Chernyavskiy February 1932 October 1932 1893–1939 Vasyliy Stroganov October 1932 January 1933 1888–1938 Mendel Khatayevich January 1933 March 1937 1893–1939 Natan Margolin March 1937 November 1937 1895–1938 Demyan Korotchenko November 1937 February 24, 1938 1894–1969 Semen Zadionchenko (Zayonchik) February 24, 1938 July 1941 1898–1972 Konstantin Grushevy July 1941 October 1941 1906–1982Nazi German occupation (1941–1943) Georgiy Dementyev 1943 February 1944 Pavel Naydenov February 1944 November 1947 1905–1967 Leonid Brezhnev November 27, 1947 June 1950 1906–1982 Andrei Kirilenko June 1950 December 1955 1906–1990 Vladimir Shcherbitskiy December 1955 December 1957 1918–1990 Anton Gayevoi December 1957 May 1961 1907–1962 Nikita Tolubeyev May 1961 July 7, 1963 1922– Aleksei Vatchenko January 1963 December 1964 1914–1984 Vladimir Shcherbitskiy July 7, 1963 October 1965 1918–1990 Aleksei Vatchenko October 1965 June 1976 1914–1984 Yevgeniy Kachalovskiy June 1976 1983 1926–2011 Viktor Boyko 1983 April 20, 1987 1931– Vladimir Ivashko April 20, 1987 December 14, 1988 1932–1994 Nikolai Zadoya December 14, 1988 August 31, 1990 1938– Nikolai Omelchenko August 31, 1990 August 1991 1936–
See also Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
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