Oleksiy Vachenko

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Олексій Федосійович Ватченко
Transl. :	Oleksij Fedosijovyč Vatčenko
Transcr. :	Oleksiy Fedoziyovich Vachenko
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Алексей Федосеевич Ватченко
Transl .:	Aleksej Fedoseevič Vatčenko
Transcr .:	Alexei Fedosejewitsch Vachenko

Oleksiy Fedosijowytsch Watschenko (* February 12 ^jul. / 25. February  1914 ^greg. In the village Elysaweto-Kamenetz ( Елизавето-Каменец to today Dnipro ), yekaterinoslav governorate , Russian Empire ; † 22. November 1984 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician.

From 1976 to 1984 Watschenko was chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Early years

Vachenko was born to a peasant family in a village near Yekaterinoslav, today's Dnipro. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Dnipropetrovsk in 1938 and worked as a teacher from 1938 to 1941. After that he was a soldier in the Red Army in the German-Soviet War until the end of 1944 . Since 1940 he was a member of the CPSU .

Party career

From 1945 to 1948 he was first deputy head, then head of the Department of Public Education of the Executive Committee of the Dnepropetrovsk City Council. From 1948 to 1954 he was first second secretary of the district committee of the Stadtrajon Sobor of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, then first secretary of the district committee Nikopol and head of the department of the regional party committee Dnipropetrovsk of the KPU. Until 1963 he worked his way up to the 1st Plenipotentiary of the Regional Committee of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU). In 1964 he was First Secretary of the Party Committee of Cherkassy Oblast and in 1965 in the same position in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast . From October 31, 1961 to March 29, 1966 Watschenko was a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU . From March 18 to November 22, 1984 he was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the KPU and from August 4, 1966 until his death a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Finally, on June 24, 1976, he became chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR and held this post until his death on November 22, 1984. His predecessor in this office was Ivan Hrushetskyj , successor was Walentyna Shevchenko .

Others

Vachenko was buried in the Baikowe cemetery in Kiev. Petro Schelest , First Secretary of the KPU, wrote about Vachenko in his diary:

"Wattchenko is rude, uneducated, and it seems that he hates all of humanity."

Honors

The "Алексей Ватченко" 2000

In 1973 he was given the title Hero of Socialist Labor . He was also awarded the Order of Lenin six times, the Order of the Red Banner twice, the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of Alexander Nevsky . The 129-meter-long cruise ship Ivan Bunin , built in the Boizenburg Elbe shipyard , was named after the politician between 1985 and 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} biography of Oleksij Watschenko , accessed on February 1, 2015
2. ^ ^{A b} Biography in the Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991 , accessed on February 1, 2015
3. ↑ Vachenko, Hero of Labor on warheroes.ru , accessed February 1, 2015
4. ↑ Cruise ship "Ivan Bunin" on cruiseinform.ru , accessed on February 1, 2015