Rostyslav Babiychuk Explained

Rostyslav Babiychuk
Order:Minister of Culture of Ukrainian SSR
Term Start:10 July 1956
Term End:15 November 1971
Predecessor:Kostiantyn Lytvyn
Successor:Yuriy Yelchenko
Order1:First Secretary of Zhytomyr Oblast committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Term Start1:16 September 1951
Term End1:5 May 1952
Predecessor1:Serhiy Kostyuchenko
Successor1:Oleksiy Fedorov
Birth Date:14 February 1911
Birth Place:Kishinev, Bessarabian Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:Kyiv, Ukraine
Party:Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Rostyslav Volodymyrovych Babiychuk (Ukrainian: Ростислав Володимирович Бабійчук; 14 February 1911 – 11 January 2013) was a Soviet and Ukrainian party and state official.

Biography

Rostyslav Babiychuk was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (today Chișinău, Moldova) in a family of railway workers.[1] He joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) in 1939 and headed department of propaganda and agitation at the Odessa Railways Khrystynivka department, while being an instructor at the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.

During the World War II he worked at the Northern Railway in Ivanovo.

In 1951–1952 Babiychuk was the First Secretary of Zhytomyr Oblast committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. In 1954–1976 he was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In 1956–1971 Babiychuk was a Minister of Culture of Ukraine.

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/4d5891a1c48d3/ Міністри культури України привітають міністра культури УРСР із 100-річчям