Aleksey Kirichenko

Aleksey Illarionovich Kirichenko (25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1908 – 28 December 1975) was a Soviet Ukrainian politician, who was the first ethnic Ukrainian to head the republic's communist party during the Soviet era. Between 1957 and 1960, he was a Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the second-highest-ranking official within the party after Nikita Khrushchev.

Aleksey Kirichenko
Олексій Кириченко
Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office
17 December 1957  5 April 1960
Preceded byMikhail Suslov
Succeeded byFrol Kozlov
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office
12 June 1953  26 December 1957
Preceded byLeonid Melnikov
Succeeded byNikolai Podgorny
Full member of the 19th, 20th Presidium
In office
12 July 1955  4 May 1960
Member of the 20th Secretariat
In office
17 December 1957  5 April 1960
Personal details
Born(1919-02-26)26 February 1919
Chornobaivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Ukraine)
Died28 December 1975(1975-12-28) (aged 67)
Moscow, Soviet Union
(now Russia)
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1938-1962)
ProfessionMechanical engineer, civil servant
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