Leonid Ivanovych Hrach ( uk, Леоні́д Іва́нович Гра́ч), also as Leonid Ivanovich Grach (russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Гра́ч), is a Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian politician.
Biography
Hrach was born in a town of Brodetske,
Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast ( uk, Ві́нницька о́бласть, translit=Vinnytska oblast; ; also referred to as Vinnychchyna — uk, Ві́нниччина) is an oblast of western and southwestern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Vinnytsia. ...
on 1 January 1948.
He was a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in 1998–2002 and the 1st secretary of the Crimean republican committee of CPU in 1991. Hrach stayed the leader of communists in Crimea until 2010 when he was officially excluded from communists ranks by leadership 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 ...
.
After the
annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. This event took place in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity and is part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War.
The events in Kyiv th ...
in 2014, Hrach joined the Russian political party
Communists of Russia
The Communist Party "Communists of Russia" (CPCR; russian: Коммунистическая партия «Коммунисты России»; КПКР; ''Kommunisticheskaya partiya «Kommunisty Rossii»'', ''KPKR'') or simply Communists of Russi ...
along with the Crimean republican committee of the Communist Marxist–Leninist Party of Ukraine.
The legendary Leonid Grach became a head of the Crimean regional department of the Communist of Russia party
Communists of Russia
The Communist Party "Communists of Russia" (CPCR; russian: Коммунистическая партия «Коммунисты России»; КПКР; ''Kommunisticheskaya partiya «Kommunisty Rossii»'', ''KPKR'') or simply Communists of Russi ...
website. 5 April 2014
See also
* 1994 Crimean presidential election
The only presidential elections were contested in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea for the post of President of Crimea, at the time a republic within Ukraine. The office was created by the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, the republic's unicameral par ...
Notes
References
External links
Leonid Hrach
personal website as member of the Communists of Russia
The Communist Party "Communists of Russia" (CPCR; russian: Коммунистическая партия «Коммунисты России»; КПКР; ''Kommunisticheskaya partiya «Kommunisty Rossii»'', ''KPKR'') or simply Communists of Russi ...
Crimean Oblast
at the Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
Crimean ASSR
at the Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
Ukraine
at worldstatesmen.org
* Matola, V.
In Ukraine are registered 14 pro-Russian parties
'. The Ukrainian Week
''The Ukrainian Week'' ( uk, Український Тиждень, translit=Ukrainskyi Tyzhden) is an illustrated weekly magazine covering politics, economics and the arts and aimed at the socially engaged Ukrainian-language reader. It provides ...
. 21 May 2013.
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1948 births
Living people
People from Vinnytsia Oblast
Kuban State University alumni
Communist Party of Ukraine politicians
Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) politicians
Kyiv Higher Party School alumni
Communists of Russia politicians
Governors of Crimean Oblast
Fourth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Fifth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Communist Party of Workers and Peasants politicians
Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class