Leonid Hrach | |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Office: | Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea |
Term Start: | May 14, 1998 |
Term End: | April 29, 2002 |
Predecessor: | Anatoliy Hrytsenko |
Successor: | Boris Deich |
Office1: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
Convocation1: | 4th convocation |
Constituency1: | Communist Party of Ukraine, 11th on party list |
Term Start1: | May 14, 2002[1] |
Term End1: | May 25, 2006 |
Convocation2: | 5th convocation |
Constituency2: | Communist Party of Ukraine, 19th on party list |
Term Start2: | May 25, 2006[2] |
Term End2: | November 23, 2007 |
Convocation3: | 6th convocation |
Constituency3: | Communist Party of Ukraine, 21st on party list |
Term Start3: | November 23, 2007[3] |
Term End3: | December 12, 2012 |
Birth Date: | January 1, 1948 |
Birth Place: | Brodetske village, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Ukrainian |
Leonid Ivanovych Hrach (Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іва́нович Гра́ч), also as Leonid Ivanovich Grach (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Гра́ч), is a Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian politician.
Hrach was born in a 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]