Leonid Korniyets

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Леонід Романович Корнієць
Transl. : Leonid Romanovyč Kornijec '
Transcr. : Leonid Romanowytsch Korniyets
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Леонид Романович Корниец
Transl .: Leonid Romanovič Korniec
Transcr .: Leonid Romanowitsch Korniyets

Leonid Romanowytsch Kornijez (born August 8 jul. / 21st August  1901 greg. In Bobrynets , Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 29. May 1969 in Moscow , USSR ) was a Ukrainian-Soviet politician and from 1938 to 1939 Chairman of the Supreme Soviets of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic .

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Korniyets was born in a village near the town of Bobrynez, now in the Ukrainian Oblast of Kirovohrad, as the son of a farm worker. From 1917 he worked as a laborer and farm worker. Kornijez was in the Red Army from October 1922 to April 1925 , joined the CPSU in 1926 and then began a career as a party functionary.

On July 27, 1938, he was succeeded by Grigory Ivanovich Petrowski , chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR and held this office until July 28, 1939. From March 21, 1939 to October 5, 1952 he was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU and from July 28, 1939 Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Head of Government) of the Ukrainian SSR. Nikita Khrushchev took over this post on February 5, 1944 . During the German-Soviet War he was also a member of the military council for various fronts, since 1943 in the rank of lieutenant general . Since 1953 he has held various ministerial posts in the USSR. He died in Moscow in 1969 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Honors

Korniyets was awarded the Order of the Red Banner , the Order of the Patriotic War, First Class, the Lenin Order three times , and the Bogdan Khmelnitsky Order, First Class.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991 ; Retrieved February 4, 2015
  2. CV in tabular form ; Retrieved February 4, 2015