Leonid Hrach

Leonid Hrach
Леонiд Грач
Hrach in 2007
Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea
In office
14 May 1998 – 29 April 2002
Preceded byAnatoliy Hrytsenko
Succeeded byBoris Deich
People's Deputy of Ukraine
4th convocation
In office
14 May 2002[1] – 25 May 2006
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, 11th on party list
5th convocation
In office
25 May 2006[2] – 23 November 2007
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, 19th on party list
6th convocation
In office
23 November 2007[3] – 12 December 2012
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, 21st on party list
Personal details
Born(1948-01-01)1 January 1948
Brodetske village, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
DiedOctober 2025(2025-10-00) (aged 77)
NationalityUkrainian

Leonid Ivanovych Hrach (Ukrainian: Леонiд Iванович Грач), also as Leonid Ivanovich Grach (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Гра́ч), (1 January 1948 – October 2025) was a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian politician.

Life and career

Hrach was born in the town of Brodetske, Vinnytsia Oblast on 1 January 1948.

He was a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in 1998–2002 and the 1st secretary of the Crimean republican committee of CPU in 1991. Hrach stayed the leader of communists in Crimea until 2010 when he was officially excluded from communists ranks by leadership of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, Hrach joined the Russian political party Communists of Russia along with the Crimean republican committee of the Communist Marxist–Leninist Party of Ukraine.[4]

Hrach died in October 2025, at the age of 77.[5]

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