Oleksiy Fedosiyovych Vatchenko ( uk, Олексій Федосійович Ватченко; 25 February 1914 – 22 November 1984) was a

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and Soviet politician, who served as the chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1984.

Biography

Oleksiy Vatchenko was born in a village of Yelizaveto-Kamyanets that today is located in

Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

, Eastern Ukraine. His sister was

Horpyna Vatchenko Horpyna Vatchenko ( uk, Горпина Федосіївна Ватченко, also Agrippina Vatchenko) (6 July 1923 – 9 November 2004) was a Ukrainian historian and director of the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro, wher ...

, director of the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro.

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