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Demyan Korotchenko

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Preceded by
  
Nikita Khrushchev

Preceded by
  
Mykhailo Hrechukha

Succeeded by
  
Nikifor Kalchenko

Succeeded by
  
Oleksandr Lyashko


Preceded by
  
Mykola Marchak

Name
  
Demyan Korotchenko

Succeeded by
  
Leonid Korniyets

Role
  
Politician


Died
  
April 7, 1969, Kiev, Ukraine

Party
  
Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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).

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Biography

Demyan Korotchenko was born in a peasant family in a small village that today is in Sumska Oblast, eastern Ukraine.

Awards

  • Hero of Socialist Labour (1964)
  • Six Orders of Lenin
  • Order of Suvorov, 1st class
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
  • References

    Demyan Korotchenko Wikipedia