The Cherkasy Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, commonly referred to as the Cherkasy CPU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Cherkasy Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.

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 Cherkasy Oblast Name Term of Office Life years Start End First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party Borys Volytovsky January 1954 6 February 1960 1906–1983 Leontiy Naidek 6 February 1960 December 1964 1907–1992 Vasyl Rychko 8 January 1963 December 1964 1919–1977 Oleksiy Vatchenko December 1964 28 October 1965 1914–1984 Oleksandr Andreyev 28 October 1965 27 January 1976 1917–1988 Ivan Lutak 27 January 1976 9 September 1988 1919–2009 Oleksandr Ruzhytskyi 9 September 1988 26 August 1991 1938–2017

See also Cherkasy Oblast

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Sources World Statesmen.org