First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine

The following list is composed of the First Secretarites of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The office' name alternated throughout its history between First Secretary and the General Secretary. While the CPU leader was not officially the leader of Ukraine, he was so de facto. The longest serving secretary was Vladimir Shcherbitsky with some 17 years.

• Mykola Oleksiiovych Skrypnyk (20 April–26 May 1918) (Secretary of the Organizational Bureau)

#	Secretary		Took office	Left office	Deputy	Congress
1		Yurii Leonidovych Pyatakov	12 July 1918	9 September 1918	None	1
2		Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner	9 September 1918	22 October 1918	None
3		Emanuil Ionovich Kviring	23 October 1918	6 March 1919	None	2
4		Yurii Leonidovych Pyatakov	6 March 1919	30 May 1919	None	3
5		Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior	30 May 1919	10 December 1919	None
-		Rafail Borisovich Farbman (acting)	10 December 1919	23 March 1920	None
6		Nikolai Ilyich Beschetvertnoi	23 March 1920	25 March 1920	None	4
-		Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior (temporary)	25 March 1920	17 October 1920	None
7		Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov	23 November 1920	22 March 1921	Dmitriy Lebed	5
-		Feliks Yakovlevich Kon (acting)	22 March 1921	13 December 1921
8		Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky	14 December 1921	10 April 1923		6
9		Emanuil Ionovich Kviring	10 April 1923	16 May 1924		7
			17 May 1924	7 April 1925	Aleksei Medvedev	8
					Ivan Klimenko
10		Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich	7 April 1925	12 December 1925
			12 December 1925	29 November 1927		9
					Aleksei Medvedev
			29 November 1927	14 July 1928		10
11		Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior	14 July 1928	15 June 1930
					Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili
			15 June 1930	23 January 1934		11
					Vasiliy Stroganov
					Mendel Khatayevich
					Pavel Postyshev
			23 January 1934	3 June 1937		12
					Mendel Khatayevich
			3 June 1937	27 January 1938		13
					Sergei Kudryavtsev
12		Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (acting until 18 June 1938)	27 January 1938	17 May 1940	Mikhail Burmistenko (acting until 18 June 1938)
						14
			17 May 1940	3 March 1947		15
					Demian Korotchenko
13		Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich	3 March 1947	26 December 1947
14		Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	26 December 1947	28 January 1949	Leonid Melnikov
			28 January 1949	16 December 1949		16
15		Leonid Georgyevich Melnikov	16 December 1949	27 September 1952	Aleksei Kirichenko
			27 September 1952	4 June 1953		17
16		Aleksey Illarionovich Kirichenko	4 June 1953	26 March 1954	Nikolai Podgorny
			26 March 1954	21 January 1956		18
			21 January 1956	26 December 1957		19
17		Nikolay Viktorovich Podgorny	26 December 1957	19 February 1960	Leontiy Naidek
			19 February 1960	30 September 1961	Ivan Kazanets	20
			30 September 1961	2 July 1963		21
18		Petro Yukhymovych Shelest	2 July 1963	18 March 1966	Nikolai Sobol
			18 March 1966	20 March 1971	Oleksandr Liashko	22
					Ivan Lutak
			20 March 1971	25 May 1972		23
19		Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky	25 May 1972	13 February 1976
			13 February 1976	12 February 1981	Ivan Sokolov	24
			12 February 1981	8 February 1986		25
					Oleksiy Titarenko
			8 February 1986	28 September 1989		26
					Vladimir Ivashko
20		Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko	28 September 1989	23 June 1990	Stanislav Hurenko	27
21		Stanislav Ivanovich Hurenko	23 June 1990	1 September 1991	Leonid Kravchuk	28
					Hryhoriy Kharchenko

External links

• Secretariat of Central Committee of the CP(b)U (Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991)