Oleksandr Liashko
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Oleksandr Liashko | |
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Олександр Ляшко | |
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR | |
In office 9 June 1972 – 10 July 1987 | |
Preceded by | Volodymyr Shcherbytsky |
Succeeded by | Vitaliy Masol |
Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | |
In office 1961 – 25 April 1989 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Rodakove, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) | 12 January 1916
Died | 9 October 2002 | (aged 86)
Resting place | Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1942–1991) |
Awards | Hero of Socialist Labour |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Soviet Union |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Battles/wars | |
Oleksandr Pavlovych Liashko (Ukrainian: Олександр Павлович Ляшко; 12 January 1916 – 9 October 2002) was a Soviet Ukrainian politician. He was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of Prime Minister of Ukraine) for more than 15 years, making him the longest-serving person in that capacity.[1] He also served in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1989. In 1985 Liashko received the honorary award, the Hero of Socialist Labour.
Biography[edit]
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Oleksandr Liashko was born in a family of a railway worker in Rodakove in present-day Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.[2] He studied at technical school and matriculated at Donetsk Industrial Institute in 1937.[2]
Together with his classmates in the summer of 1941, he was sent as a cadet to the 2nd Kharkiv Tank School. After graduating from the school in 1942, he received the rank of lieutenant and was sent to the Gorky Automobile Plant, which then began to produce tanks. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1942.
The platoon commanded by O. Liashko received combat vehicles and was transferred to the North Caucasus Front. After a well-organized repair of military equipment in 1943, he returned to the tank school, where he taught special subjects until the end of the war.
From 1945 he worked as an engineer on the equipment of the open-hearth shop at the Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant of the Stalin Region. At the same time, he studied at the Donetsk Industrial Institute, graduating in 1947 with a degree in metallurgical and mechanical engineering.
From 1947 he was deputy head of the transport department, deputy director, and from 1951 he was a party member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) at the New Kramatorsk Machinebuilding Factory in Stalino Oblast.
From August 1952 to 1954 he was the first secretary of the Kramatorsk city committee of the Communist Party of Stalino Oblast.
From 1954 to 1957 he was secretary of the Stalino Oblast committee of the Communist Party. From 1957 to 1 March 1960, he was the second secretary of the Stalinist regional committee of the Communist Party.
1 March 1960 — January 1963 he First Secretary of the Stalino Oblast Committee of the Communist Party. In January — 11 July 1963 — First Secretary of the Donetsk Regional Industrial Committee of the Communist Party.
2 July 1963 — 18 March 1966 — Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party for Industry and Construction.
18 March 1966 — 19 June 1969 — 2nd Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
20 June 1969 — 9 June 1972 — Chairman of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.
On 9 June 1972, Liashko became Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. In May 1986, he headed the Republican Government Commission for the Elimination of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident. On 10 July 1987, the fifth session of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR relieved Liashko of his duties as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.
Since 1987 he has been a personal pensioner of union significance in Kyiv.
He was married to Davydova Klavdia Andriivna, and had two children, Volodymyr and Nina.
Author of three books of memoirs: "The Way of Survival", "The Way to the Nomenclature" (1997), "On the Steps of Power" (2001).
He died on 9 October 2002. He was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery.[3]
Awards[edit]
Oleksandr Liashko was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1985. During his public service, he also received numerous other civil and state awards and recognitions, including the Order of Lenin (in 1965, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1985), the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (in 1957 and 1958), the Order of the Patriotic War, I class (in 1985) and the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V class (in 2000).
References[edit]
- ^ "Урядовий портал :: Керівники урядів Української Радянської Соціалістичної Республіки". Archived from the original on 17 October 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Урядовий портал :: Керівники урядів Української Радянської Соціалістичної Республіки". www.kmu.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012.
- ^ Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України від 10 жовтня 2002 року № 1490 «Про поховання колишнього Голови Ради Міністрів УРСР Ляшка О.П.».
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