Leonid Melnykov

Leonid Melnykov
Leonid Melnykov
Леонід Мельников
Presidium
	In office; 6 March 1953 – 7 July 1953
Personal details
Born	31 May [O.S. 18 May] 1906; Mglinsky Uyezd, Chernihiv Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	16 April 1981 (aged 74); Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Leonid Heorhiyovych Melnykov (Ukrainian: Леонід Георгійович Мельников; 31 May 1906 – 16 April 1981) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician and diplomat.

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Political offices
Preceded by Post established	Chairman of Committee in Supervision for Work Safety 1966–1981	Succeeded by Ivan Vladychenko
Preceded by Post established	Minister of Construction of the Coal Industry 1955–1957	Succeeded by Post abolished
Preceded by Anatoliy Lavrentiev	Soviet Ambassador to Romania 1953–1955	Succeeded by Alexei Yepishev
Party political offices
Preceded by Nikita Khrushchev	1st Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine 1949–1953	Succeeded by Aleksey Kirichenko
Preceded by Mikhail Drozhin	1st Secretary of the Communist Party of Stalino Oblast 1944–1947	Succeeded by Aleksandr Struyev
Preceded by ?	1st Secretary of the Communist Party of Karaganda Oblast 1942–1944	Succeeded by Gregory Galaydin
Preceded by Semyon Zadiochenko	1st Secretary of the Communist Party of Stalino Oblast (acting) 1941–1942	Succeeded by German occupation

First (General) Secretaries		Georgy Pyatakov (1918) Serafima Hopner (1918) Emanuel Kviring (1918–1919) Georgy Pyatakov (1919) Stanislav Kosior (1919) Nikolay Bestchetvertnoi (1920) Vyacheslav Molotov (1920–1921) Dmitry Manuilsky (1921–1923) Emanuel Kviring (1923–1925) Lazar Kaganovich (1925–1928) Stanislav Kosior (1928–1938) Nikita Khrushchev (1938–1947) Lazar Kaganovich (1947) Nikita Khrushchev (1947–1949) Leonid Melnikov (1949–1953) Alexei Kirichenko (1953–1957) Nikolai Podgorny (1957–1963) Petr Shelest (1963–1972) Vladimir Scherbitsky (1972–1989) Vladimir Ivashko (1989–1990) Stanislav Gurenko (1990–1991)
Decision-making bodies	Politburo / Presidium Secretariat Orgburo Control Commission
Publications	Visti VUCVK Kommunist / Radyanska Ukraina Pravda Ukrainy

Congresses	1st (1918) 2nd (1918) 3rd (1919) 4th (1920) 5th (1920) 6th (1921) 7th (1923) 8th (1924) 9th (1925) 10th (1927) 11th (1930) 12th (1934) 13th (1937) 14th (1938) 15th (1940) 16th (1949) 17th (1952) 18th (1954) 19th (1956) 20th (1959) 21st (1960) 22nd (1961) 23rd (1966) 24th (1971) 25th (1976) 26th (1981) 27th (1986) 28th (1990)
Conferences	1st (1926) 2nd (1929) 3rd (1932)

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States