Petro Shelest
Petro Shelest | |
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Shelest, c. 1960s-1970s | |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
| In office 23 June 1963 – 19 May 1972 | |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Podgorny |
| Succeeded by | Volodymyr Shcherbytsky |
| Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 19 May 1972 – 7 May 1973 | |
| Premier | Alexei Kosygin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 February 1908 |
| Died | 22 January 1996 (aged 87) |
| Resting place | Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv |
| Party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1928–1973) |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch/service | Red Army |
| Years of service | 1936–1937 |
Central institution membership | |
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Petro Yukhymovych Shelest (14 February [O.S. 1 February] 1908 – 22 January 1996) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1965 until his removal in 1972. Ideologically a social moderate and a national communist, he oversaw a widespread liberalisation of Ukrainian society as part of the Khrushchev Thaw and Sixtier movement that led to increased visibility of the Ukrainian language and culture in public life. In 1972, Shelest was removed by Leonid Brezhnev and replaced with Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who undid much of Shelest's reforms and oversaw intensive Russification of Ukrainian society.