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 by | Anatoliy Hrytsenko |
| Succeeded by | Boris Deich |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| 4th convocation | |
| In office 14 May 2002[1] – 25 May 2006 | |
| Constituency | Communist Party of Ukraine, 11th on party list |
| 5th convocation | |
| In office 25 May 2006[2] – 23 November 2007 | |
| Constituency | Communist Party of Ukraine, 19th on party list |
| 6th convocation | |
| In office 23 November 2007[3] – 12 December 2012 | |
| Constituency | Communist Party of Ukraine, 21st on party list |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1948 Brodetske village, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Died | October 2025 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
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]
See also
Notes
References
- ^ Leonid Hrach at the Verkhovna Rada website
- ^ Leonid Hrach at the Verkhovna Rada website
- ^ Leonid Hrach at the Verkhovna Rada website
- ^ The legendary Leonid Grach became a head of the Crimean regional department of the Communist of Russia party. Communists of Russia website. 5 April 2014
- ^ Помер Леонід Грач, колишній спікер Верховної Ради Криму та екс-нардеп України (in Ukrainian)
External links
- Leonid Hrach personal website as member of the Communists of Russia
- Crimean Oblast at the Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
- Crimean ASSR at the Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
- Ukraine at worldstatesmen.org
- Matola, V. In Ukraine are registered 14 pro-Russian parties. The Ukrainian Week. 21 May 2013.
