Volodymyr Ivashko

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Володимир Антонович Івашко
Transl. :	Volodymyr Antonovyč Ivaško
Transcr. :	Volodymyr Antonovytsch Ivashko
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Владимир Антонович Ивашко
Transl .:	Vladimir Antonovič Ivaško
Transcr .:	Vladimir Antonovich Ivaschko

Volodymyr Antonowytsch Iwaschko (born October 28, 1932 in Poltava , Ukrainian SSR , † November 13, 1994 in Hamburg ) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician.

Life

Ivaschko was trained as a mining engineer in Kharkiv . From 1962 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Mining in Kharkiv, later he held the post of deputy dean there. Since 1973 he was a member of the regional committee of the CPSU in Kharkiv, from 1978 he was regional party secretary . In 1986 he was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and held the office of the Ukrainian Central Committee Secretary for Ideological Issues.

After Iwaschko had worked for a year in Afghanistan as the official political advisor to the Afghan government, he first became first party secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and from 1988 second secretary of the Ukrainian party leadership. From September 1989 to June 1990 he was the successor of Shcherbitsky First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Since December 1989 he was also a member of the Politburo of the CPSU . Ivaschko was considered a supporter of the perestroika policy of Mikhail Gorbachev .

In the first semi-free elections to the Verkhovna Rada in March 1990, the Communist Party of Ukraine won just over 70% of the parliamentary seats. Iwaschko was initially elected chairman of the parliament , succeeding Platon Kostjuk , but had to resign when he was on the XXVIII. Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the newly created office of the party's Deputy Secretary General was elected. During the August putsch in 1991 , he took up the post of general secretary for Gorbachev when he was under house arrest in Crimea . Ivaschko did not support the coup against Gorbachev.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Iwaschko no longer held any political office. He died on November 13, 1994 of cancer in a Hamburg hospital.

Awards

Ivashko was awarded the Order of the Red Labor Banner and the Order of Friendship among Peoples .

Web links

Commons : Volodymyr Ivaschko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Brief biography of Iwashko
• Wolodymyr Iwaschko in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Spiegel, edition 29/1990
2. ^ Ex-CPSU vice died in Hamburg , Neues Deutschland on November 17, 1994