The Donetsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, commonly referred to as the Donetsk CPU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Donetsk Oblast (until November 9, 1961, Stalino Oblast), in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created on July 20, 1932, and abolished in August 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine or the First Secretary of the Republic.
| Name | Term of Office | Life years | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | |||
| First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party | ||||
| Mykhailo Chuvyrin | July 20, 1932 | September 19, 1932 | 1883–1947 | |
| Ivan Akulov | September 19, 1932 | September 18, 1933 | 1888–1937 | |
| Sarkis Sarkisov (Danielyan) | September 18, 1933 | May 24, 1937 | 1898–1938 | |
| Eduard Pramnek (Pramnieks) | May 24, 1937 | April 8, 1938 | 1899–1938 | |
| Aleksandr Shcherbakov | April 8, 1938 | November 12, 1938 | 1901–1945 | |
| Petro Lyubavin | November 12, 1938 | August 4, 1941 | 1898–1941 | |
| Semen Zadionchenko (Zayonchik) | September 1941 | November 1941 | 1898–1972 | |
| Nazi German occupation (1941–1943) | ||||
| Mykhailo Drozhzhyn | June 1943 | February 16, 1944 | 1901–? | |
| Leonid Melnykov | February 16, 1944 | July 21, 1947 | 1906–1981 | |
| Oleksandr Struyev | July 21, 1947 | September 19, 1953 | 1906–1991 | |
| Ivan Kazanets | September 19, 1953 | March 1, 1960 | 1918–2013 | |
| Oleksandr Liashko | March 1, 1960 | July 11, 1963 | 1915–2002 | |
| Trokhym Poplyovkin | January 16, 1963 | December 1964 | 1915–1977 | |
| Volodymyr Dehtyaryov | July 11, 1963 | January 6, 1976 | 1920–1993 | |
| Borys Kachura | January 10, 1976 | October 29, 1982 | 1930–2007 | |
| Vasyl Mironov | October 29, 1982 | June 11, 1988 | 1925–1988 | |
| Anatoliy Vinnyk | June 22, 1988 | February 9, 1990 | 1936– | |
| Yevhen Mironov | April 7, 1990 | August 1991 | 1945– | |