Mykhailo Ilyich Bondarenko ( uk, Михайло Ілліч Бондаренко; 8 September 1903 – 10 February 1938) was a

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and

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politician, who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of

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(today's equivalent of prime-minister) from August to October 1937.

Biography

On 13 October 1937, Bondarenko was arrested during an official trip in Moscow and charged with the belonging to anti-Soviet Trotskyist terrorist and sabotage organization, which acted in the oil industry of the USSR. On 8 February 1938 the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court sentenced him to be shot, and on 10 February he was executed. Bondarenko was rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 14 April 1956.

Early life

Mykhailo Bondarenko was born in a

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family in a town of Yelizavetgrad (present day

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), central Ukraine.

References

1903 births 1938 deaths Politicians from Kropyvnytskyi People from Yelisavetgradsky Uyezd Chairpersons of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) members Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Great Purge victims from Ukraine Ukrainian people executed by the Soviet Union Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire Soviet politicians {{Ukraine-politician-stub