Leonid Korniyets | |
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Chairman of All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee | |
In office March 1938 – 25 July 1938 |
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Preceded by | Hryhoriy Petrovsky |
Succeeded by | position transformed |
Chairman of Presidium of Verkhovna Rada | |
In office 27 July 1938 – 28 July 1939 |
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Preceded by | position created |
Succeeded by | Mykhailo Hrechukha |
7th Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR | |
In office 6 August 1939 – 16 February 1944 |
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Preceded by | Demyan Korotchenko |
Succeeded by | Nikita Khrushchev |
Personal details | |
Born |
Bobrynets, Yelizavetgrad county, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire |
21 August 1901
Died | 29 May 1969 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
(aged 67)
Political party | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
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Leonid Romanovych Korniyets (Ukrainian: Леонід Романович Корнієць; 21 August 1901 – 29 May 1969) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the head of government of Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister) from 1939 to 1944.
Leonid Korniyets was born in a town of Bobrynets that today is in Kirovohrad Oblast, central Ukraine.