The Donetsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, commonly referred to as the Donetsk CPU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Donetsk Oblast (until November 9, 1961, Stalino Oblast), in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created on July 20, 1932, and abolished in August 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine or the First Secretary of the Republic.

List of First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Donetsk

Name Term of Office Life years
Start End
First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party
Mykhailo Chuvyrin July 20, 1932 September 19, 1932 1883–1947
Ivan Akulov September 19, 1932 September 18, 1933 1888–1937
Sarkis Sarkisov (Danielyan) September 18, 1933 May 24, 1937 1898–1938
Eduard Pramnek (Pramnieks) May 24, 1937 April 8, 1938 1899–1938
Aleksandr Shcherbakov April 8, 1938 November 12, 1938 1901–1945
Petro Lyubavin November 12, 1938 August 4, 1941 1898–1941
Semen Zadionchenko (Zayonchik) September 1941 November 1941 1898–1972
Nazi German occupation (1941–1943)[a]
Mykhailo Drozhzhyn June 1943 February 16, 1944 1901–?
Leonid Melnykov February 16, 1944 July 21, 1947 1906–1981
Oleksandr Struyev July 21, 1947 September 19, 1953 1906–1991
Ivan Kazanets September 19, 1953 March 1, 1960 1918–2013
Oleksandr Liashko[b] March 1, 1960 July 11, 1963 1915–2002
Trokhym Poplyovkin[c] January 16, 1963 December 1964 1915–1977
Volodymyr Dehtyaryov[d] July 11, 1963 January 6, 1976 1920–1993
Borys Kachura January 10, 1976 October 29, 1982 1930–2007
Vasyl Mironov October 29, 1982 June 11, 1988 1925–1988
Anatoliy Vinnyk June 22, 1988 February 9, 1990 1936–
Yevhen Mironov April 7, 1990 August 1991 1945–

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Notes

  1. ^ During Nazi German occupation, the region was under Wehrmacht jurisdiction due to the frontlines proximity.
  2. ^ For Industry January 17, 1963 – July 11, 1963
  3. ^ For Agriculture
  4. ^ For Industry to December 1964

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