Lviv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine explained

The Lviv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, commonly referred to as the Lviv CPU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Lviv Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created in November 1939 following the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland during the ongoing World War II and abolished in August 1991. On 21 May 1959 the Drohobych Regional Committee was merged into the Lviv Regional Committee.

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.

List of First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Lviv

NameTerm of OfficeLife years
StartEnd
First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party
? (provisional administration of the Lwow Voivodeship)September 1939November 1939
Leonid HryshchukNovember 27, 1939June 19411906–1960
part of the General Governorate District of Galicia19411944
Ivan Hrushetsky1944January 10, 19491904–1982
Borys KovalJanuary 12, 1949January 6, 19501903–1959
Ivan HrushetskyJanuary 6, 1950February 15, 19511904–1982
Vasyl ChuchukaloFebruary 17, 1951April 4, 19521905–1963
Zinovie SerdiukApril 15, 1952February 9, 19541903–1982
Mykhailo LazurenkoFebruary 9, 1954February 11, 19611908–1987
Ivan HrushetskyFebruary 11, 1961December 17, 19621904–1982
Vasyl KutsevolDecember 17, 1962November 28, 19731920–2001
Leonid Vandenko (agricultural)January 11, 1963December 14, 19641913–1987
Viktor DobrykNovember 28, 1973March 20, 19871927–2008
Yakiv PohrebnyakMarch 20, 1987April 14, 19901928–2016
Vyacheslav SecretariukApril 14, 1990August 26, 19911938–2004

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