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The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
( uk, Перший Секретар ЦК КПУ, russian: Первый Секретарь ЦК КПУ) was a party leader of the republican branch of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union " Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspape ...
. The office' name alternated throughout its history between First Secretary and the General Secretary. While the CPU leader was not officially the leader of Ukraine, he was so ''
de facto ''De facto'' ( ; , "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, whether or not they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms. It is commonly used to refer to what happens in practice, in contrast with '' de jure'' ("by l ...
'' through the
Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution Article 6 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution placed limitations on the political rights of Soviet citizens. While the rest of the constitution theoretically assured the public freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of press these rights wer ...
, which indicated that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the "leading and guiding force of the Soviet society". On October 24, 1990, the provision on the monopoly of the Communist Party of Ukraine on power was excluded from Article 6 of the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR and accordingly, the first secretary of the Central Committee ceased to be considered the actual head of the republic. The First Secretary was elected at a plenum (plenary session) of the Central Committee, while each Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine was elected at the each Party's Congress. The longest serving secretary was
Vladimir Shcherbitsky Volodymyr Vasylyovych Shcherbytsky, russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Щерби́цкий; ''Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky'', (17 February 1918 — 16 February 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician. He was First Secr ...
Who the longest of all ruled Ukraine. Dossier (Кто дольше всех руководил Украиной. Досье)
TASS. 23 May 2014 with some 17 years.


Name change

* 1918–1920 Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine * 1920–1921 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine * 1921–1921 Responsible Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine * 1921–1925 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine * 1925–1934 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine * 1934–1991 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine


Historical scope

The post of Secretary was elected by a
plenum Plenum may refer to: * Plenum chamber, a chamber intended to contain air, gas, or liquid at positive pressure * Plenism, or ''Horror vacui'' (physics) the concept that "nature abhors a vacuum" * Plenum (meeting), a meeting of a deliberative asse ...
(
plenary session A plenary session or plenum is a session of a conference which all members of all parties are to attend. Such a session may include a broad range of content, from keynotes to panel discussions, and is not necessarily related to a specific st ...
) of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
beginning since July 1918. Until 1920 it was a single post of the Central Committee Secretariat. In 1920 Nikolay Bestchetvertnoi was dismissed as the secretary and the Provisional Bureau of the Central Committee elected
Stanislav Kosior Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, Cali ...
as the Party's Secretary. Later in 1920 there were introduced a post of the Second Secretary which acted as a deputy of the First Secretary. In 1921 after
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was dismissed as the First Secretary, he was replaced with
Feliks Kon Feliks Yakovlevich Kon (18 May 1864 – 30 July 1941) was a Polish communist activist, politician, ethnographer, publicist and journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of the Soviet satirical magazine, '' Krokodil''. Life and career Born in ...
as the Responsible Secretary. Kon became the only party official with such title which he held until end of 1921. Starting with 1921 beside the First and the Second secretaries, there were elected some additional secretaries, first of which became
Stanislav Kosior Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, Cali ...
. In March of 1925 on a statement of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
the post held by Emanuil Kviring had changed its name to the General Secretary. Less than a month later a plenum of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
reelected the party's leader
Lazar Kaganovich Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, also Kahanovich (russian: Ла́зарь Моисе́евич Кагано́вич, Lázar' Moiséyevich Kaganóvich; – 25 July 1991), was a Soviet politician and administrator, and one of the main associates of ...
with the new title name. In January of 1934
Stanislav Kosior Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, Cali ...
was elected as the First Secretary returning to previous name which has been kept until the
dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
. In 1927–1930 the
Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
also had posts of a candidate to Secretariat members. In 1931–1932 there were secretaries for specific types of industry as well as a separate secretary for "Donbas" ( Ivan Akulov). In June of 1937 there was introduced a post of the Third Secretary which existed until January of 1949. In May of 1940 a practice of electing a secretary for specifically assigned industry was renewed and continued throughout the
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
until the next planum of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
in January of 1949. Until 1952 the
Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
was officially known as the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (CP(b)U).


List of first and second secretaries

* Mykola Oleksiiovych Skrypnyk (20 April–26 May 1918) (Secretary of the Organizational Bureau)


Other members of Secretariat


Third Secretary

*
Nikolay Popov Nikolay Popov (14 December 1931 – 4 February 2008) was a Russian engineer who went on to be the main designer of the renowned Soviet main battle tank, the T-80 The T-80 is a main battle tank (MBT) that was designed and manufactured in the f ...
(3 June 1937 – 3 July 1937) *
Demian Korotchenko Demyan Serhiyovych Korotchenko ( uk, Дем’ян Сергійович Коротченко; 29 November 1894 – 7 April 1969) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who twice served as the head of government of the Ukrainian SSR (the equ ...
(22 July 1939 – 9 July 1946) * Konstantin Litvin (10 July 1946 – 28 January 1949)


Other Secretaries

*
Stanislav Kosior Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, Cali ...
(14 December 1921 – 17 October 1922) * Dmitry Lebed (November 1920 – May 1924) *
Yakov Drobnis Yakov Naumovich Drobnis (Russian: Яков Наумович Дробнис; 6 March 1890 – 1 February 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary who supported Leon Trotsky. He was a defendant at one of the Moscow Show Trials. Early life Drobnis was ...
(17 October 1922 – 10 April 1923) * Mikhail Vladimirsky (17 May 1924 – 12 December 1925) * Boris Kholyavskiy (17 May 1924 – 5 April 1925) * Aleksandr Shumsky (17 May 1924 – 12 December 1925) * Fyodor Kornyushin (7 April 1925 – 24 November 1926) * Vladimir Zatonsky (12 December 1925 – 24 February 1927) * Kuprian Kirkizh (12 December 1925 – 24 November 1926) * Ivan Klimenko (12 December 1925 – 13 October 1927) * Pavel Postyshev (24 November 1926 – 22 July 1930) * Aleksei Medvedev (28 October 1927 – 18 November 1929) * Afanasiy Lyubchenko (29 November 1927 – 13 June 1934) *
Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili Lavrenty Kartvelishvili ( ka, ლავრენტი იოსების ძე ქართველიშვილი; russian: Картвелишвили, Лаврентий Иосифович; 28 April 1890 – 22 August 1938) was a Georg ...
(21 November 1929 – 15 June 1930) * Roman Terekhov (22 July 1930 – 5 January 1933) * Vladimir Chernyavskiy (13 December 1930 – 28 January 1932; in transport) * Nikita Alekseyev (30 November 1931 – 28 January 1932; in supply) * Fyodor Zaitsev (28 January 1932 – 8 June 1933; in transport) * Naum Golod (July 1932 – 8 June 1933; in supply) * Ivan Akulov (12 October 1932 – 18 November 1933; in Donbass) *
Mendel Khatayevich Mendel Markovich Khatayevich (russian: Мендель Маркович Хатаевич; 3 October 1893 – 30 October 1937) was a Soviet politician.
(29 January 1933 – 23 January 1934) *
Nikolay Popov Nikolay Popov (14 December 1931 – 4 February 2008) was a Russian engineer who went on to be the main designer of the renowned Soviet main battle tank, the T-80 The T-80 is a main battle tank (MBT) that was designed and manufactured in the f ...
(27 February 1933 – 3 June 1937) * Moisei Spivak (17 May 1940 – 21 January 1944; in human resources) *
Iosif Lysenko Iosif may refer to: People *Iosif Amusin, Soviet historian *Iosif Anisim, Romanian sprint canoer * Iosif Blaga, Romanian literary theorist and politician * Iosif Bobulescu, Romanian bishop *Iosif Capotă, Romanian anti-communist resistance fighte ...
(17 May 1940 – 1941; in propaganda and political agitation (went missing)) *
Aleksei Stoyantsev Alexey, Alexei, Alexie, Aleksei, or Aleksey (russian: Алексе́й ; bg, Алексей ) is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin ...
(7 May 1941 – 1943; in aviation industry) * Ivan Vivdychenko (7 May 1941 – 1943; in engineering) * Ivan Gorobets (7 May 1941 – 1943; in metallurgy industry) * Aleksei Kirichenko (7 May 1941 – 21 January 1944; in industry) * Pyotr Zakharov (7 May 1941 – 1943; in construction and construction materials) * A. Nikolayenko (7 May 1941 – 1943; in transport) * Pyotr Matsuy (7 May 1941 – 1943; in power stations and power industry) * Aleksei Kirichenko (21 January 1944 – July 1945; in human resources) * Konstantin Litvin (6 October 1944 – 9 July 1946; in propaganda and political agitation) *
Aleksei Yepishev Alexei Alexeyevich Yepishev, also spelled Epishev (Russian: ''Алексей Алексеевич Епишев''; – September 15, 1985) was a Soviet political officer, politician and diplomat. He served as the Chief of the Main Political Direct ...
(10 July 1946 – 28 January 1949; in human resources) *
Ivan Nazarenko Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...
(10 July 1946 – 25 May 1948; in propaganda and political agitation) *
Demian Korotchenko Demyan Serhiyovych Korotchenko ( uk, Дем’ян Сергійович Коротченко; 29 November 1894 – 7 April 1969) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who twice served as the head of government of the Ukrainian SSR (the equ ...
(3 March 1947 – 26 December 1947; in industry) *
Nikolay Patolichev Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev (russian: Николай Семёнович Патоличев; 23 September 1908 – 1 December 1989) was a Soviet statesman who served as Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR from 1958 to 1985. Prior to that, he wa ...
(3 March 1947 – 21 July 1947; in agriculture and procurement) *
Leonid Melnikov Leonid Georgievich Melnikov (russian: Леонид Георгиевич Мельников; 18(31) May 1906 – 16 April 1981) was a Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontin ...
(21 July 1947 – 26 December 1947) * Konstantin Litvin (28 January 1949 – 13 April 1950) *
Ivan Nazarenko Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...
(28 January 1949 – 25 June 1956) * Zinoviy Serdyuk (28 January 1949 – May 1952) *
Grigoriy Grishko Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy are Russian masculine given names. It may refer to watcher angels or more specifically to the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels. Grigory * Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist * Grigory Barenblatt (1927201 ...
(28 February 1951 – 27 September 1952) * Nikita Bubnovskiy (May 1952 – 27 September 1952) * Nikita Bubnovskiy (26 March 1954 – 26 March 1963) * Olga Ivaschenko (25 May 1954 – 8 January 1965) * Stepan Chervonenko (26 June 1956 – 22 October 1959) * Leontiy Naidek (4 December 1957 – 26 December 1957) *
Vladimir Scherbitskiy Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukra ...
(4 December 1957 – 17 May 1961) * Andrei Skaba (24 October 1959 – 29 March 1968) * Anton Gayevoy (19 May 1961 – 3 July 1962; died in office) * Pyotr Shelest (11 August 1962 – 1 July 1963) * Ivan Grushetskiy (25 December 1962 – 18 March 1966) * Vasiliy Komyakhov (25 December 1962 – 16 October 1966; died in office) *
Aleksandr Lyashko Oleksandr Pavlovych Liashko ( uk, Олександр Павлович Ляшко; December 30, 1915 — October 9, 2002) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician. He was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR (today's equivale ...
(1 July 1963 – 18 March 1966) *
Vasiliy Drozdenko Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil''. It may refer to: * Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 *Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince f ...
(18 March 1966 – 20 March 1971) *
Aleksei Titarenko Alexey, Alexei, Alexie, Aleksei, or Aleksey (russian: Алексе́й ; bg, Алексей ) is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin ...
(18 March 1966 – 22 October 1982) * Ivan Lutak (23 January 1967 – 19 June 1969) * Fyodor Ovcharenko (29 March 1968 – 10 October 1972) * Nikolay Borisenko (31 March 1970 – 8 May 1980; died in office) * Yakov Pogrebnyak (20 March 1971 – 24 March 1987) * Valentin Malanchuk (10 October 1972 – 26 April 1979) *
Aleksandr Kapto Aleksandr Semyonovich Kapto (; April 14, 1933 – April 19, 2020) was a Soviet and Russian sociologist, political scientist, diplomat, journalist and politician. He earned a philosophy degree in 1967 and his Ph.D. in 1985. In 2008 he was head of ...
(26 April 1979 – 8 February 1986) * Ivan Mozgovoy (28 May 1980 – 10 October 1988) *
Boris Kachura Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ...
(22 October 1982 – 23 June 1990) * Vasiliy Kryuchkov (21 September 1984 – 12 December 1988) * Vladimir Ivashko (8 February 1986 – 25 April 1987) *
Stanislav Gurenko Stanislav Ivanovych Hurenko ( uk, Станісла́в Іва́нович Гуре́нко; russian: Станисла́в Ива́нович Гуре́нко, translit=Stanislav Ivanovich Gurenko; 30 May 1936 – 14 April 2013), was a Soviet Ukr ...
(25 March 1987 – 18 October 1989) * Yuriy Yelchenko (25 April 1987 – 23 June 1990) * Ivan Grintsov (11 October 1988 – until the party's liquidation) *
Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk ( uk, Леонід Макарович Кравчук; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed ...
(18 October 1989 – 28 September 1990) * Valentin Ostrozhinskiy (23 June 1990 – until the party's liquidation) *
Anatoliy Savchenko Anatoly (russian: Анато́лий, Anatólij , uk, Анато́лій, Anatólij ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian male given name, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'', meaning "sunrise." Other common Russian transliterations are Ana ...
(23 June 1990 – until the party's liquidation) * Vasiliy Lisovenko (15 April 1991 – until the party's liquidation)


Candidates to the Secretariat

* Nikolay Donenko (9 April 1929 – 18 November 1929) * Olga Pilatskaya (9 April 1929 – 15 June 1930) * Andrei Khvylia (9 April 1929 – 15 June 1930) * Vladimir Chernyavskiy (21 November 1929 – 15 June 1930)


References


External links


Secretariat of Central Committee of the CP(b)U (Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991)
* Vakhtang Kipiani, Volodymyr Fedoryn.
"Shcherbytskyi said what kind of a stupid person invented the word perestroika? … ("Щербицкий сказал - какой дурак придумал слово перестройка?..")
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(Istorychna Pravda). 10 September 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Leaders Of Communist Party (b) of Ukraine Ukrainian bolsheviks leaders Bolshevik leaders Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) * 1918 establishments in Russia 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union