Oleksiy Vatchenko | |
Order3: | First Secretary of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine |
Term Start3: | 1959 |
Term End3: | January 1963 |
Predecessor3: | Vasyl Behma |
Successor3: | Industrial: Kostiantyn Yanovytsky Rural: Mykyta Bubnovsky |
Order2: | First Secretary of the Cherkasy Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine |
Term Start2: | December 1964 |
Term End2: | October 1965 |
Predecessor2: | Industrial: Vasyl Rychko Rural: Leontiy Naidek |
Successor2: | Oleksandr Andreyev |
Order1: | First Secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine |
Term Start1: | October 1965 |
Term End1: | 29 June 1976 |
Predecessor1: | Volodymyr Shcherbytsky |
Successor1: | Yevhen Kachalovsky |
Order: | Chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR |
Term Start: | 24 June 1976 |
Term End: | 22 November 1984 |
Predecessor: | Ivan Hrushetsky |
Successor: | Valentyna Shevchenko |
Birth Date: | 25 February 1914 |
Birth Place: | Yelizaveto-Kamyanets, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Party: | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Oleksiy Fedosiyovych Vatchenko (Ukrainian: Олексій Федосійович Ватченко; 25 February 1914 – 22 November 1984) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1984.
Oleksiy Vatchenko was born in a village of Yelizaveto-Kamyanets that today is located in Dnipro, Ukraine.[1] His sister was Horpyna Vatchenko, director of the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro.[2]