List of Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada

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The following table includes the Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet (Verkhovna Rada in Ukrainian) of Ukrainian SSR (1938–1991) and the Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since 1991).

List of Chairmen

Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR

# Portrait Name Term of Office Party Parliament
(Election)		 First Deputy
1 Mykhailo Burmystenko 25 July 1938 9 September 1941 Communist (Bolsheviks)
2 Oleksandr Korniychuk 1947 1953 Communist (Bolsheviks)
3 Pavlo Tychyna 1953 1959 Communist
4 Oleksandr Korniychuk 1959 1972 Communist
5 Mykhailo Bilyi 1972 1980 Communist
6 Kostiantyn Sytnyk 1980 1985 Communist
7 Platon Kostiuk 1985 4 June 1990 Communist
8 Volodymyr Ivashko 4 June 1990[1] 9 July 1990 Communist I (1990) Ivan Plyushch[lower-alpha 1]
9 Leonid Kravchuk 23 July 1990[2] 5 December 1991 Communist

Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

According to the parliamentary regulations, a chair person of the Ukrainian parliament during his or her term at the position, officially votes in the parliament among the non-affiliated group.

# Portrait Name Term of Office Political alliance Parliament
(Election)		 First Deputy
1 Ivan Plyushch 5 December 1991[3] 11 May 1994 Independent[lower-alpha 2]I (1990) Vasyl Durdynets
2 Oleksandr Moroz 18 May 1994[4] 7 July 1998 Socialist Party of Ukraine II (1994) Oleksandr Tkachenko
3 Oleksandr Tkachenko 7 July 1998[5] 21 January 2000 Communist Party of Ukraine III (1998) Adam Martyniuk
4 Ivan Plyushch 1 February 2000 14 May 2002 People's Democratic Party Viktor Medvedchuk
5 Volodymyr Lytvyn 28 May 2002[6] 6 July 2006 For United Ukraine IV (2002) Hennadiy Vasyliev
6 Oleksandr Moroz 6 July 2006[7] 4 December 2007 Socialist Party of Ukraine V (2006) Adam Martyniuk
7 Arseniy Yatsenyuk 4 December 2007[8] 12 November 2008[9][10] Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc VI (2007) Oleksandr Lavrynovych[lower-alpha 3]
8 Volodymyr Lytvyn 9 December 2008 12 December 2012 People's Party
(Lytvyn Bloc)
Adam Martyniuk
9 Volodymyr Rybak 13 December 2012 22 February 2014 Party of Regions VII (2012) Ihor Kalietnik
10 Oleksandr Turchynov 22 February 2014 27 November 2014 Batkivshchyna[lower-alpha 4] vacant
11 Volodymyr Groysman 27 November 2014 14 April 2016 Petro Poroshenko Bloc VIII (2014) Andriy Parubiy
12 Andriy Parubiy 14 April 2016 Incumbent People's Front Iryna Herashchenko

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ From July 9 to 23, Ivan Plyushch performed functions of Chairman ex officio as the First Deputy Chairman.
  2. ↑ Initially as a MP of the Communist Party of Ukraine which was dissolved after the 1991 August Putsch
  3. ↑ From November 12 to December 9, 2008 Oleksandr Lavrynovych performed functions of Chairman ex officio as the First Deputy Chairman.
  4. ↑ During his term as Chairman, Turchynov switched allegiance to People's Front, which was established on 10 September 2014. People's Front did not take part in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election and it never had a political faction in parliament prior to the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[11][12][13]

References

  1. ↑ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 11-XII: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR. Adopted on 1990-06-04. (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 63-XII: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR. Adopted on 1990-07-23. (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 1930-XII: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 1991-12-05. (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 14/94-ВР: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 1994-05-18. (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 31-XIV: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 1998-07-07. (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 10-IV: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 2002-05-28. (Ukrainian)
  7. ↑ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 7-V: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 2006-07-06. (Ukrainian)
  8. ↑ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 5-VI: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 2007-12-04. (Ukrainian)
  9. ↑ "Rada Dismisses Yatseniuk". Ukrainian News Agency. November 12, 2008.
  10. ↑ "President Yuschenko: Dismissal Of Yatseniuk Aimed Against Stabilization Of Situation In Country". Ukrainian News Agency. November 12, 2008.
  11. ↑ (Ukrainian)Yatsenyuk became a leader of the "People's Front" political council, while Turchynov is a head of its headquarters. Ukrayinska Pravda. 10 September 2014
    Ukrainian PM, Parliament Speaker to Head Newly Formed Popular Front Party, RIA Novosti (10 September 2014)
  12. ↑ (Ukrainian) Депутатські фракції і групи VII скликання Deputy fractions and Groups VII convocation, Verkhovna Rada official website (oktober 7, 2014)
  13. ↑ Oleksandr Turchynov was not a parliamentary of the People Front however until after the next elections. Verkhovna Rada website.

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