Mykhailo Hrechukha

Mykhailo Hrechukha
Mykhailo Hrechukha
1st secretary of Zhytomyr regional committee of CP(b)U
	In office; 14 December 1938 – 28 July 1939
Preceded by	Maksym Didenko
Succeeded by	Mykhailo Syromiatnikov
Chairman of Presidium of Verkhovna Rada
	In office; 28 July 1939 – 18 January 1954
Preceded by	Leonid Korniets
Succeeded by	Demyan Korotchenko
1st Deputy Chairman of the Soviet of Ministers (UkrSSR)
	In office; 1954–1959
Premier	Nikifor Kalchenko
Personal details
Born	19 September 1902; Cherkasy county, All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
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Mykhailo Serhiyovych Hrechukha (Ukrainian: Михайло Сергійович Гречуха; 19 September 1902 - 15 May 1976) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1939 to 1954. He was elected to the 1st through 5th convocations of Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.^[1]

Biography

Mykhailo Hrechukha was born in a village of Moshny that today is located in Cherkasy Raion, central Ukraine.

Profile in the
Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
Mykhailo Hrechukha in the Jurist Encyclopedia of Ukraine

Political offices
Preceded by Leonid Korniets	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR 1939-1954	Succeeded by Demyan Korotchenko