Demyan Korotchenko | |
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6th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
In office 4 March 1947 – 15 January 1954 |
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Preceded by | Nikita Khrushchev |
Succeeded by | Nikifor Kalchenko |
In office 21 February 1938 – 6 August 1939 |
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Preceded by | Mykola Marchak |
Succeeded by | Leonid Korniyets |
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
In office 15 January 1954 – 7 April 1969 |
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Preceded by | Mykhailo Hrechukha |
Succeeded by | Oleksandr Lyashko |
Full member of the 19th Presidium | |
In office 16 October 1952 – 6 March 1953 |
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Candidate member of the 20th Presidium | |
In office 29 June 1957 – 17 October 1961 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Pohribky, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire |
29 November 1894
Died | 7 April 1969 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
(aged 74)
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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Demian Serhiyovych Korotchenko (Ukrainian: Дем’ян Сергійович Коротченко; 29 November 1894 – 7 April 1969) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who twice served as the head of government of Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister).
Demyan Korotchenko was born in a peasant family in a small village that today is in Sumska Oblast, eastern Ukraine.