First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine

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 Volodymyr Shcherbytsky^[3] 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

Later in 1920 there were introduced a post of the Second Secretary which acted as a deputy of the First Secretary. In 1921 after

In March 1925 on a statement of the Central Committee of the

From 1927 to 1930, the Communist Party of Ukraine also had posts of a candidate to Secretariat members. Between 1931 and 1932 there were secretaries for specific types of industry as well as a separate secretary for the 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 until the next planum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in January of 1949.

Until 1952 the Communist Party of Ukraine 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)

No.	Portrait	Name[4] (Born-Died)	Term of office			Second	Congress[5]
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1	1
2	1
3	2
(1)		Georgy Pyatakov (1890–1937)	6 March 1919	30 May 1919	85 days	None	3
4	Stanislav Kosior (1889–1939)	30 May 1919	10 December 1919	194 days	None	3
–		Rafail Farbman (1893–1966) Acting	10 December 1919	23 March 1920	104 days	None	3
5		Nikolay Bestchetvertnoi (1895–1937)	23 March 1920	25 March 1920	2 days	None	4
–	Stanislav Kosior (1889–1939) Acting	25 March 1920	17 October 1920	206 days	None	4
6		Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986)	23 November 1920	22 March 1921	119 days	Dmitriy Lebed	5
–		Feliks Kon (1864–1941) Acting	22 March 1921	13 December 1921	266 days	Dmitriy Lebed	5
7		Dmitry Manuilsky (1883–1959)	14 December 1921	10 April 1923	1 year, 117 days	Dmitriy Lebed	6
(3)		Emanuel Kviring (1888–1937)	10 April 1923	7 April 1925	1 year, 362 days	Dmitriy Lebed Aleksei Medvedev Ivan Klimenko	7 8
8		Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991)	7 April 1925	14 July 1928	3 years, 98 days	Ivan Klimenko Aleksei Medvedev	8 9 10
(4)	Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili Vasiliy Stroganov Mendel Khatayevich Pavel Postyshev Mendel Khatayevich Sergei Kudryavtsev	10 11 12 13
–		Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) Acting	27 January 1938	18 June 1938	142 days	Mykhailo Burmystenko (Acting)	13
9		Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971)	18 June 1938	3 March 1947	8 years, 258 days	Demyan Korotchenko	13 14
(8)		Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991)	3 March 1947	26 December 1947	298 days	Demyan Korotchenko	15
(9)	Leonid Melnikov	15 16
10	Aleksei Kirichenko	16 17
11	Alexei Kirichenko (1908–1975)	4 June 1953	26 December 1957	4 years, 205 days	Nikolai Podgorny	17 18 19
12		Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983)	26 December 1957	2 July 1963	5 years, 188 days	Leontiy Naidek Ivan Kazanets	19 20 21
13		Petro Shelest (1908–1996)	2 July 1963	25 May 1972	8 years, 328 days	Nikolai Sobol Oleksandr Liashko Ivan Lutak	21 22 23
14		Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918–1990)	25 May 1972	28 September 1989	17 years, 95 days	Ivan Lutak Ivan Sokolov Oleksiy Titarenko Vladimir Ivashko	23 24 25 26
15		Vladimir Ivashko (1932–1994)	28 September 1989	23 June 1990	299 days	Stanislav Hurenko	27
16		Stanislav Hurenko (1936–2013)	23 June 1990	30 August 1991	1 year, 68 days	Leonid Kravchuk Hryhoriy Kharchenko	28

Other members of Secretariat

Third Secretary

• Nikolay Popov (3 June 1937 – 3 July 1937)
• Demyan Korotchenko (22 July 1939 – 9 July 1946)
• Konstantin Litvin (10 July 1946 – 28 January 1949)

Other Secretaries

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