Leonid Hrach

Leonid Ivanovych Hrach (Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іва́нович Гра́ч), also as Leonid Ivanovich Grach (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Гра́ч), is a Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian politician.

Leonid Hrach
Леоні́д Гра́ч
Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea
In office
May 14, 1998 – April 29, 2002
Preceded byAnatoliy Hrytsenko
Succeeded byBoris Deich
People's Deputy of Ukraine
4th convocation
In office
May 14, 2002[1] – May 25, 2006
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, 11th on party list
5th convocation
In office
May 25, 2006[2] – November 23, 2007
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, 19th on party list
6th convocation
In office
November 23, 2007[3] – December 12, 2012
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, 21st on party list
Personal details
Born (1948-01-01) January 1, 1948
Brodetske village, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian

Biography

Hrach was born in a town of Brodetske, Vinnytsia Oblast on 1 January 1948.

He was a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in 1998–2002 and the 1st secretary of the Crimean republican committee of CPU in 1991. Hrach stayed the leader of communists in Crimea until 2010 when he was officially excluded from communists ranks by leadership of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, Hrach joined the Russian political party Communists of Russia along with the Crimean republican committee of the Communist Marxist–Leninist Party of Ukraine.[4]

See also

Notes

    References
    1. Leonid Hrach at the Verkhovna Rada website
    2. Leonid Hrach at the Verkhovna Rada website
    3. Leonid Hrach at the Verkhovna Rada website
    4. The legendary Leonid Grach became a head of the Crimean regional department of the Communist of Russia party. Communists of Russia website. 5 April 2014
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