Zakarpattia Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine explained

The Zakarpattia Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, commonly referred to as the Zakarpattia CPU obkom, was the position of highest authority in the Zakarpattia Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.

On 19 November 1944 there was established position of the First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Zakarpattian Ukraine. On 26 November 1944 there was established People's Council of Zakarpattian Ukraine which declared its intention to unite Zakarpattian Ukraine with the Ukrainian SSR. On 29 June 1945 Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union signed the treaty transferring Zakarpattian Ukraine to the Soviet Union, which was ratified on 30 January 1946. On 30 January 1946 Zakarpattian Ukraine had officially become Zakarpattia Oblast. On 26 February 1946 the position of the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Zakarpattian Ukraine was merged into the Communist Party of Ukraine as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Zakarpattia Oblast.

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 Zakarpattia Oblast (Zakarpattian Ukraine)

NameTerm of OfficeLife years
StartEnd
First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party
Ivan Turyanytsia19 November 194427 January 19481901–1955
Ivan Kompanets27 January 19487 September 19521904–1969
Ivan Vash7 September 195228 May 19591904–1966
Pylyp Shcherbak28 May 1959February 19621907–1969
Yuriy Ilnytskyi5 February 19622 December 19801924–2016
Henrikh Bandrovskyi2 December 19809 February 19901929–2008
Mykhailo Voloshchuk9 February 19902 July 19911934–2017
Vasyl Khymynets2 July 199126 August 19911948–

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