In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yukhymovych and the family name is Shelest.
Petro Shelest
Петро Шелест
Shelest in 1972
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office 23 June 1963 – 19 May 1972
Preceded by
Nikolai Podgorny
Succeeded by
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office 19 May 1972 – 7 May 1973
Premier
Alexei Kosygin
Full member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th Politburo
In office 16 November 1964 – 27 April 1973
Personal details
Born
(1908-02-14)14 February 1908 Andriivtsi, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died
22 January 1996(1996-01-22) (aged 87) Moscow Oblast, Russia
Resting place
Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv
Nationality
Soviet Ukrainian
Political party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1928–1973)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
Soviet Union
Branch/service
Red Army
Years of service
1936–1937
Petro Yukhymovych Shelest[a] (14 February [O.S. 1 February] 1908 – 22 January 1996) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1965 until his removal in 1972. Ideologically a social moderate and a national communist, he oversaw a widespread liberalisation of Ukrainian society as part of the Khrushchev Thaw and Sixtier movement that led to increased visibility of the Ukrainian language and culture in public life. Shelest was removed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1972 and replaced with Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who undid much of Shelest's reforms and oversaw intensive Russification of Ukrainian society.
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