Andriy Mykolayevich Hirenko (or Andrei Nikolayevich Girenko) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician from before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He headed the Komsomol of Ukraine and was the 1st Party Secretary in Kherson and Crimea.
Hirenko was born in 1936 as Adolf which he changed in 1972.Hamolsky, L. Simply lilac bloomed.... "Dnepr Vecherniy" newspaper. 30 January 2012 He died in late December 2017.
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External links Crimean Oblast at the Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991 Ukraine at worldstatesmen.org Brief bio at the Kherson regional universal science library Hirenko at the Great Biographic Encyclopedia Hirenko at hrono.ru