List of leaders of Ukraine
The Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (CP(b)U) leaders
The following list is composed of the secretary of the Central Committee of the party who were the leaders of the Party.

List of leaders of Ukraine

Section Title: The Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (CP(b)U) leaders
Table Section Text: The following list is composed of the secretary of the Central Committee of the party who were the leaders of the Party.

№	Secretary	Took office	Left office	Deputy	Congress

(1)	-	Yurii Leonidovych Pyatakov	12 July 1918	9 September 1918	None	1

2	Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner	9 September 1918	22 October 1918	None

3	-	Emanuil Ionovich Kviring	23 October 1918	6 March 1919	None	2

(1)	-	Yurii Leonidovych Pyatakov	6 March 1919	30 May 1919	None	3

4	-	Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior	30 May 1919	10 December 1919	None

—	Rafail Borisovich Farbman Acting	10 December 1919	23 March 1920	None

5	Nikolai Ilyich Beschetvertnoi	23 March 1920	25 March 1920	None	4

—	-	Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior Acting	25 March 1920	17 October 1922	None

6	-	Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov	23 November 1920	22 March 1921	Dmitriy Lebed	5

—	-	Feliks Yakovlevich Kon Acting	22 March 1921	13 December 1921

7	Dmitry Manuilsky.PNG	Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky	14 December 1921	10 April 1923	6

(3)	-	Emanuil Ionovich Kviring	10 April 1923	16 May 1924	7

17 May 1924	7 April 1925	Aleksei Medvedev	8

Ivan Klimenko

-	Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich	7 April 1925	12 December 1925

8	12 December 1925	29 November 1927	9

Aleksei Medvedev

29 November 1927	14 July 1928	10

(4)	-	Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior	14 July 1928	15 June 1930

Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili

15 June 1930	23 January 1934	11

Vasiliy Stroganov

Mendel Khatayevich

Pavel Postyshev

23 January 1934	3 June 1937	12

Mendel Khatayevich

3 June 1937	27 January 1938	13

Sergei Kudryavtsev

9	-	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Acting until 18 June 1938	27 January 1938	17 May 1940	Mikhail Burmistenko Acting until 18 June 1938

14

17 May 1940	3 March 1947	15

Demian Korotchenko

(8)	-	Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich	3 March 1947	26 December 1947

(9)	-	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	26 December 1947	28 January 1949	Leonid Melnikov

28 January 1949	16 December 1949	16

10	Leonid Georgyevich Melnikov	16 December 1949	27 September 1952	Aleksei Kirichenko

27 September 1952	4 June 1953	17

11	Aleksey Illarionovich Kirichenko	4 June 1953	26 March 1954	Nikolai Podgorny

26 March 1954	21 January 1956	18

21 January 1956	26 December 1957	19

12	-	Nikolay Viktorovich Podgorny	26 December 1957	19 February 1960	Leontiy Naidek

19 February 1960	30 September 1961	Ivan Kazanets	20

30 September 1961	2 July 1963	21

13	Шелест П.JPG	Petro Yukhymovych Shelest	2 July 1963	18 March 1966	Nikolai Sobol

18 March 1966	20 March 1971	Oleksandr Liashko	22

Ivan Lutak

20 March 1971	25 May 1972	23

14	Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky	25 May 1972	13 February 1976

13 February 1976	12 February 1981	Ivan Sokolov	24

12 February 1981	8 February 1986	25

Oleksiy Titarenko

8 February 1986	28 September 1989	26

Vladimir Ivashko

15	Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko	28 September 1989	23 June 1990	Stanislav Hurenko	27

16	Stanislav Ivanovich Hurenko	23 June 1990	1 September 1991	Leonid Kravchuk	28

Hryhoriy Kharchenko

Sentence(s)

Stanislav Hurenko replaced Vladimir Ivashko as the Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

final_sentence: Stanislav Hurenko replaced Vladimir Ivashko as the Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.