Andriy Mykolayevich Hirenko (or Andrei Nikolayevich Girenko) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician from before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He headed the Komsomol of Ukraine and was the 1st Party Secretary in Kherson and Crimea.

Hirenko was born in 1936 as Adolf which he changed in 1972.[1] He died in late December 2017.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hamolsky, L. Simply lilac bloomed.... "Dnepr Vecherniy" newspaper. 30 January 2012
  2. ^ "Накануне Нового года ушел из жизни Андрей Гиренко". kherson.net.ua (in Russian). 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
Party political offices Preceded byAleksandr Kapto(Oleksandr Kapto) 1st Secretary of the Komsomol of Ukraine 1972–1975 Succeeded byAnatoliy Kornienko(Anatoliy Koniyenko) Preceded byIvan Mozgovoi(Ivan Mozghovyi) 1st Secretary of the Kherson Oblast Committee 1980–1987 Succeeded byMikhail Kushnerenko(Mykhailo Kushnerenko) Preceded byViktor Makarenko 1st Secretary of the Crimean Oblast Committee 1987–1989 Succeeded byNikolai Bagrov(Mykola Bahrov)