First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine 1-й Секретар ЦК КП(б)У
State emblem
Appointer	Party congress
Precursor	none
Inaugural holder	Georgy Pyatakov
Formation	12 July 1918
Final holder	Stanislav Gurenko
Abolished	1 September 1991
Succession	abolished

The following list is composed of the First Secretarites of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The office' name alternated throughout its history between First Secretary and the General Secretary. While the CPU leader was not officially the leader of Ukraine, he was so de facto. The longest serving secretary was Vladimir Shcherbitsky with some 17 years.