List of chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada
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This article lists the chairmen of the Supreme Soviet (Verkhovna Rada in Ukrainian) of Ukrainian SSR (1938–1991) and the chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since 1991).
List of chairmen
Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Party | Election | First Deputy | Deputy | |
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1 | Mykhailo Burmystenko | 25 July 1938 | 9 September 1941 | Communist (Bolsheviks) | 1938 | |||
2 | Oleksandr Korniychuk | 1947 | 1953 | Communist (Bolsheviks) | 1947 | |||
3 | Pavlo Tychyna | 1953 | 1959 | Communist | 1953 | |||
4 | Oleksandr Korniychuk | 1959 | 1972 | Communist | 1959 | |||
5 | Mykhailo Bilyi | 1972 | 1980 | Communist | 1972 | |||
6 | Kostiantyn Sytnyk | 1980 | 1985 | Communist | 1980 | |||
7 | Platon Kostiuk | 1985 | 15 May 1990 | Communist | 1985 | |||
–[a] | Ivan Plyushch | 15 May 1990 | 4 June 1990 | Communist | 1990 | – | – | |
8 | Volodymyr Ivashko | 4 June 1990[1] | 9 July 1990 | Communist | Ivan Plyushch[b] | Volodymyr Hrynyov | ||
9 | Leonid Kravchuk | 23 July 1990[2] | 24 August 1991 | Communist |
Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
According to the parliamentary regulations, a chair person of the Ukrainian parliament during his or her term at the position, officially votes in the parliament among the non-affiliated group.
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political alliance | Parliament (Election) | First Deputy | Deputy | |
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1 | Leonid Kravchuk | 24 August 1991 | 5 December 1991 | Independent[c] | I (1990) | Ivan Plyushch | Volodymyr Hrynyov | |
2 | Ivan Plyushch | 5 December 1991[3] | 11 May 1994 | Independent[d] | Vasyl Durdynets | Volodymyr Hrynyov | ||
3 | Oleksandr Moroz | 18 May 1994[4] | 7 July 1998 | Socialist Party of Ukraine | II (1994) | Oleksandr Tkachenko | Oleh Dyomin Viktor Musiyaka | |
4 | Oleksandr Tkachenko | 7 July 1998[5] | 21 January 2000 | Communist Party of Ukraine | III (1998) | Adam Martyniuk | Viktor Medvedchuk | |
5 | Ivan Plyushch | 1 February 2000 | 14 May 2002 | People's Democratic Party | Viktor Medvedchuk | Stepan Havrysh | ||
6 | Volodymyr Lytvyn | 28 May 2002[6] | 6 July 2006 | For United Ukraine | IV (2002) | Hennadiy Vasyliev Adam Martyniuk | Oleksandr Zinchenko | |
7 | Oleksandr Moroz | 6 July 2006[7] | 4 December 2007 | Socialist Party of Ukraine | V (2006) | Adam Martyniuk | Mykola Tomenko | |
8 | Arseniy Yatsenyuk | 4 December 2007[8] | 12 November 2008[9][10] | Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc | VI (2007) | Adam Martyniuk Oleksandr Lavrynovych[e] | Mykola Tomenko | |
9 | Volodymyr Lytvyn | 9 December 2008 | 12 December 2012 | People's Party (Lytvyn Bloc) | Oleksandr Lavrynovych Adam Martyniuk | Mykola Tomenko | ||
10 | Volodymyr Rybak | 13 December 2012 | 22 February 2014 | Party of Regions | VII (2012) | Ihor Kalietnik | Ruslan Koshulynskyi | |
11 | Oleksandr Turchynov | 22 February 2014 | 27 November 2014 | Batkivshchyna[f] | vacant | Ruslan Koshulynskyi | ||
12 | Volodymyr Groysman | 27 November 2014 | 14 April 2016 | Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" | VIII (2014) | Andriy Parubiy | Oksana Syroyid | |
13 | Andriy Parubiy | 14 April 2016 | 29 August 2019 | People's Front | Iryna Herashchenko | Oksana Syroyid | ||
14 | Dmytro Razumkov | 29 August 2019 | 7 October 2021 | Servant of the People | IX (2019) | Ruslan Stefanchuk | Olena Kondratiuk | |
15 | Ruslan Stefanchuk | 8 October 2021 | Incumbent | Oleksandr Kornienko | Olena Kondratiuk |
See also
Notes
- ^ temporarily heading
- ^ From July 9 to 23, Ivan Plyushch performed functions of Chairman ex officio as the First Deputy Chairman.
- ^ Initially as an MP of the Communist Party of Ukraine which was dissolved after the 1991 August Putsch
- ^ Initially as an MP of the Communist Party of Ukraine which was dissolved after the 1991 August Putsch
- ^ From November 12 to December 9, 2008, Oleksandr Lavrynovych performed functions of Chairman ex officio as the First Deputy Chairman.
- ^ During his term as Chairman, Turchynov switched allegiance to People's Front, which was established on 10 September 2014. People's Front did not take part in the 2012 parliamentary election and it never had a political faction in parliament prior to the 2014 parliamentary election.[11][12][13]
References
- ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 11-XII: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR. Adopted on 1990-06-04. (Ukrainian)
- ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 63-XII: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR. Adopted on 1990-07-23. (Ukrainian)
- ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 1930-XII: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 1991-12-05. (Ukrainian)
- ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 14/94-ВР: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 1994-05-18. (Ukrainian)
- ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 31-XIV: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 1998-07-07. (Ukrainian)
- ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 10-IV: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 2002-05-28. (Ukrainian)
- ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 7-V: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 2006-07-06. (Ukrainian)
- ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 5-VI: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 2007-12-04. (Ukrainian)
- ^ "Rada Dismisses Yatseniuk". Ukrainian News Agency. November 12, 2008. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012.
- ^ "President Yuschenko: Dismissal Of Yatseniuk Aimed Against Stabilization Of Situation In Country". Ukrainian News Agency. November 12, 2008. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013.
- ^ (in Ukrainian)Yatsenyuk became a leader of the "People's Front" political council, while Turchynov is a head of its headquarters. Ukrayinska Pravda. 10 September 2014
Ukrainian PM, Parliament Speaker to Head Newly Formed Popular Front Party, RIA Novosti (10 September 2014) - ^ (in Ukrainian) Депутатські фракції і групи VII скликання Deputy fractions and Groups VII convocation[dead link], Verkhovna Rada official website (oktober 7, 2014)
- ^ Oleksandr Turchynov was not a parliamentary of the People Front however until after the next elections. Verkhovna Rada website.
External links
- "Official website of the Chairman". Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
- Высшие органы государственной власти Украинской ССР (Supreme authorities of state power of the Ukrainian SSR).
- Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991.