Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky | |
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Володимир Щербицький | |
Shcherbytsky, c. 1970s-1980s | |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
| In office 25 May 1972 – 28 September 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Petro Shelest |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Ivashko |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine | |
| In office 23 October 1965 – 25 May 1972 | |
| Preceded by | Ivan Kazanets |
| Succeeded by | Oleksandr Liashko |
| In office 28 February 1961 – 26 June 1963 | |
| Preceded by | Nikifor Kalchenko |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Kazanets |
| First Secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee | |
| In office 7 July 1963 – 23 October 1965 | |
| Preceded by | Nikita Tolubeev |
| Succeeded by | Oleksiy Vatchenko |
| In office December 1955 – December 1957 | |
| Preceded by | Andrei Kirilenko |
| Succeeded by | Anton Gayevoy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 February 1918 |
| Died | 16 February 1990 (aged 71) |
| Resting place | Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv |
| Party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1948–1989) |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch/service | Red Army |
| Years of service | 1941–1945 |
| Rank | Captain |
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Volodymyr Vasyliovych Shcherbytsky (17 February 1918 – 16 February 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1972 to 1989. A close ally of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, Shcherbytsky replaced the reformist leader, Petro Shelest, in 1972 as part of a crackdown on the Ukrainian intelligentsia. Under Shcherbytsky's neo-Stalinist rule, Ukraine was subjected to an intensive Russification campaign as well as a rapid shift to nuclear power, which ultimately resulted in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. In 1989, Shcherbytsky was removed amidst widespread protests against his rule, and died months later.