The Luhansk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine , commonly referred to as the Luhansk CPU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Luhansk Oblast (until March 5, 1958 and again from January 5, 1970 until May 4, 1990 Voroshylovhrad Oblast), in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created in June 1938, and abolished in August 1991. 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 Communist Party of Ukraine.
Name | Term of Office | Life years | |
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Start | End | ||
First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party | |||
Petro Lyubavin | June 1938 | November 1938 | 1898–1941 |
Mykhailo Kvasov | November 13, 1938 | December 21, 1940 | |
Anton Hayovy | December 21, 1940 | 1942 | 1907–1962 |
Nazi German occupation (1942–1943) | |||
Anton Hayovy | 1943 | 1951 | 1907–1962 |
Vasyl Klymenko | 1951 | March 1961 | 1906–1984 |
Volodymyr Shevchenko [lower-alpha 1] | March 1961 | December 14, 1973 | 1918–1997 |
Mykola Hureyev [lower-alpha 2] | January 1963 | December 1964 | 1907–1978 |
Borys Honcharenko | December 14, 1973 | February 27, 1987 | 1927–1999 |
Ivan Lyakhov | February 27, 1987 | February 1990 | 1936– |
Anatoliy Onyshchenko | May 26, 1990 | August 1991 | 1937– |
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