# Crimea Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine

The Crimea Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, commonly referred to as the Crimea CPU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Crimean Oblast (1954–1991) of the Ukrainian SSR (from February 19, 1954). The position was created on November 20, 1920, and abolished on August 26, 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Central Committee the Communist Party of Ukraine or the First Secretary of the Republic.
Before 1954 the regional committee was part of the Crimean ASSR (1921–1945) and Crimean Oblast (1945–1954) of the Russian SFSR.

## List of First Secretaries of the Crimea Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

| Name | Term of Office | Term of Office | Life years |
| Name | Start | End | Life years |
| First Secretaries of the Communist Party ||||
| Rozaliya Zalkind (Zemlyachka) | November 20, 1920 | January 6, 1921 | 1876–1947 |
| Adolf Lide | January 6, 1921 | March 13, 1921 | 1895–1941 |
| Ivan Akulov | March 13, 1921 | November 6, 1921 | 1888–1937 |
| Abram Izrailovich | November 6, 1921 | October 24, 1922 | 1883–1937 |
| Nikolay Ufimtsev | October 25, 1922 | May 13, 1924 | 1889–1938 |
| Ivan Nosov | May 13, 1924 | June 1925 | 1888–1937 |
| Vasily Vashkevich | 1925 | 1925 | 1892–1972 |
| Sergey Petropavlovsky | August 7, 1925 | August 30, 1927 | 1886–1940s |
| Dmitry Zhivov | September 1927 | December 8, 1929 | 1896–1939 |
| Nikolay Kozlov | December 17, 1929 | May 11, 1930 | 1893–1973 |
| Aykaz Kostanyan | May 12, 1930 | September 1930 | 1898–1938 |
| Evgeniy Veger | October 1930 | January 1933 | 1899–1938 |
| Borys Semyonov | February 1933 | December 28, 1936 | 1890–1937 |
| Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili (Lavrentyev) | December 28, 1936 | July 13, 1937 | 1890–1938 |
| Nikolay Schuchkin | July 13, 1937 | October 10, 1938 | 1895–1938 |
| Vladimir Bulatov | January 18, 1939 | May 21, 1944 | 1909–1999 |
| Pavel Tyulyayev | June 14, 1944 | June 30, 1945 | 1905–1946 |
| First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party ||||
| Pavel Tyulyayev | June 30, 1945 | June 22, 1946 | 1905–1946 |
| Nikolay Solovyov | July 30, 1946 | August 6, 1949 | 1903–1950 |
| Pavel Titov | August 6, 1949 | January 16, 1954 | 1907–1990 |

## List of First Secretaries of the Crimea Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine

| Name | Term of Office | Term of Office | Life years |
| Name | Start | End | Life years |
| Dmitrii Polyansky | January 16, 1954 | December 14, 1955 | 1917–2001 |
| Vasyl Komyahov | December 14, 1955 | January 6, 1961 | 1911–1966 |
| Ivan Lutak | January 6, 1961 | January 1967 | 1919–2009 |
| Mykola Surkin | January 11, 1963 | December 4, 1964 | 1910–? |
| Mykola Kirichenko | April 5, 1967 | July 1, 1977 | 1923–1986 |
| Viktor Makarenko | July 1, 1977 | August 1987 | 1931–2007 |
| Andriy Hirenko | September 1987 | September 25, 1989 | 1936–2017 |
| Mykola Bahrov | September 25, 1989 | February 12, 1991 | 1939–2015 |
| First Secretaries of the Communist Party ||||
| Mykola Bahrov | February 12, 1991 | April 9, 1991 | 1939–2015 |
| Leonid Hrach | April 10, 1991 | August 26, 1991 | 1948– |