Leonid Hrach
Леоні́д Гра́ч
Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea
In office May 14, 1998 – April 29, 2002
Preceded by	Anatoliy Hrytsenko
Succeeded by	Boris Deich
People's Deputy of Ukraine
4th convocation
In office May 14, 2002[1] – May 25, 2006
Constituency	Communist Party of Ukraine, 11th on party list
5th convocation
In office May 25, 2006[2] – November 23, 2007
Constituency	Communist Party of Ukraine, 19th on party list
6th convocation
In office November 23, 2007[3] – December 12, 2012
Constituency	Communist Party of Ukraine, 21st on party list
Personal details
Born	(1948-01-01) January 1, 1948 (age 76) Brodetske village, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Ukrainian

Leonid Ivanovych Hrach (Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іва́нович Гра́ч), also as Leonid Ivanovich Grach (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Гра́ч), is a Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian politician.

Biography

Hrach was born in a town of Brodetske, Vinnytsia Oblast on 1 January 1948.

He was a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in 1998–2002 and the 1st secretary of the Crimean republican committee of CPU in 1991. Hrach stayed the leader of communists in Crimea until 2010 when he was officially excluded from communists ranks by leadership of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, Hrach joined the Russian political party Communists of Russia along with the Crimean republican committee of the Communist Marxist–Leninist Party of Ukraine.^[4]