Aleksey Kirichenko

Alexei Kirichenko
  • Олексій Кириченко
  • Алексей Кириченко
Official portrait, 1959
Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office
17 December 1957 – 5 April 1960
FirstNikita Khrushchev
Succeeded byFrol Kozlov
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office
12 June 1953 – 26 December 1957
Preceded byLeonid Melnikov
Succeeded byNikolai Podgorny
Full member of the 19th, 20th Presidium
In office
12 July 1955 – 4 May 1960
Member of the 20th Secretariat
In office
17 December 1957 – 5 April 1960
Personal details
Born(1908-02-26)26 February 1908
Died28 December 1975(1975-12-28) (aged 67)
Moscow, Soviet Union
(now Russia)
PartyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1938-1962)
ProfessionMechanical engineer, civil servant
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Alexei Illarionovich Kirichenko (25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1908 – 28 December 1975) was a Soviet Ukrainian politician, who was the first ethnic Ukrainian to head the republic's communist party during the Soviet era. Between 1957 and 1960, he was a Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the second-highest-ranking official within the party after Nikita Khrushchev.