Oleksandr Liashko

Oleksandr Pavlovych Liashko (Ukrainian: Олександр Павлович Ляшко; December 30, 1915 - October 9, 2002) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician. He was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister) for more than 15 years, making him the longest-serving person in that capacity.^[1] He joined the Communist Party in 1942 and served in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1989. In 1985 Liashko received the honorary award, the Hero of Socialist Labour.

Biography

Oleksandr Liashko was born in a family of a railway worker in a small village in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.^[2] He studied at technical school and matriculated at Donetsk Industrial Institute in 1937.^[2]

Oleksandr Liashko was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1985. During his public service he also received numerous other civil and state awards and recognitions, including the Order of Lenin (in 1965, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1985), the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (in 1957 and 1958), the Order of the Patriotic War, I class (in 1985) and the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V class (in 2000).

Political offices
Preceded by Demyan Korotchenko	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR 1969-1972	Succeeded by Ivan Hrushetsky
Preceded by Volodymyr Shcherbytsky	Prime Minister of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR) 1972–1987	Succeeded by Vitaliy Masol

Prime Ministers of Ukraine

List of Prime Ministers of Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1920)	Volodymyr Vynnychenko Vsevolod Holubovych Mykola Vasylenko¹ Fedir Lyzohub Serhii Gerbel Volodymyr Chekhivsky Serhii Ostapenko Borys Martos Isaak Mazepa Vyacheslav Prokopovych

Council of Ministers	Yevgenia Bosch¹ Mykola Skrypnyk Georgy Pyatakov Christian Rakovsky Vlas Chubar Panas Lyubchenko Mykhailo Bondarenko Mykola Marchak¹ Demyan Korotchenko Leonid Korniyets Nikita Khrushchev Demyan Korotchenko Nikifor Kalchenko Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Ivan Kazanets Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Oleksandr Liashko Vitaliy Masol Vitold Fokin

Government (in exile)	Yaroslav-Bohdan Rudnytsky Ivan Samiylenko

Cabinet of Ministers	Vitold Fokin Valentyn Symonenko¹ Leonid Kuchma Yukhym Zvyahilsky¹ Vitaliy Masol Yevhen Marchuk Pavlo Lazarenko Vasyl Durdynets¹ Valeriy Pustovoitenko Viktor Yushchenko Anatoliy Kinakh Viktor Yanukovych Mykola Azarov¹ Viktor Yanukovych Mykola Azarov¹ Yulia Tymoshenko Yuriy Yekhanurov Viktor Yanukovych Yulia Tymoshenko Oleksandr Turchynov¹ Mykola Azarov Serhiy Arbuzov¹ Oleksandr Turchynov¹ Arseniy Yatsenyuk Volodymyr Groysman

¹ denotes acting

Main topics

Members

Ukraine	1st members, 1990–94 2nd members, 1994–98 3rd members, 1998–2002 4th members, 2002–06 5th members, 2006–07 6th members, 2007–12 7th members, 2012–14 8th members, 2014–19

Ukainian SSR	1st members, 1938–1947 2nd members, 1947–1951 3rd members, 1951–1955 4th members, 1955–1959 5th members, 1959–1963 6th members, 1963–1967 7th members, 1967–1971 8th members, 1971–1975 9th members, 1975–1980 10th members, 1980–1985 11th members, 1985–1990

Ukraine	Ivan Plyushch Oleksandr Moroz Oleksandr Tkachenko Ivan Plyushch Volodymyr Lytvyn Oleksandr Moroz Arseniy Yatsenyuk Oleksandr Lavrynovych (acting) Volodymyr Lytvyn Volodymyr Rybak Oleksandr Turchynov Volodymyr Groysman Andriy Parubiy

Ukrainian SSR	Mykhailo Burmystenko Oleksandr Korniychuk Pavlo Tychyna Oleksandr Korniychuk Mykhailo Bilyi Kostiantyn Sytnyk Platon Kostiuk Volodymyr Ivashko Leonid Kravchuk

Presidium	Leonid Korniets Mykhailo Hrechukha Demyan Korotchenko Oleksandr Lyashko Ivan Hrushetsky Oleksiy Vatchenko Valentyna Shevchenko Volodymyr Ivashko Leonid Kravchuk Ivan Plyushch Oleksandr Moroz

Historic predecessors