Mykola Marchak
| Mykola Marchak | |
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| 8th Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR | |
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In office 13 October 1937 – 21 February 1938 | |
| Preceded by | Mykhailo Bondarenko |
| Succeeded by | Demyan Korotchenko |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 January 1904 Zalistsi, Podolia Governorate |
| Died | 23 September 1938 (aged 34) |
| Political party | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
Mykola Makarovych Marchak (Ukrainian: Микола Макарович Марчак; 5 January 1904 - 23 September 1938) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who was the acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister) from October 1937 to February 1938.[1]
He was a son of a peasant and a member of the RCP (b) since 1921.
On 20 June 1938, Marchak was arrested and accused of belonging to an anti-Soviet Trotskyist organization. On 23 September 1938, Marchak was found guilty by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR and was sentenced to death. Marchak was rehabilitated by the resolution of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of 17 June 1958.
Biography
Mykola Marchak was born in a peasant family in a small village in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, western Ukraine.
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| Preceded by Mykhailo Bondarenko |
Prime Minister of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR) 1937–1938 |
Succeeded by Demyan Korotchenko |
