About Oleksiy Vatchenko
Lived 1914 – 1984 (aged 70). Oleksiy Vatchenko was a Russian politician.
Oleksiy Fedosiyovych Vatchenko (; 25 February 1914 – 22 November 1984) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1984.
Biography Oleksiy Vatchenko was born on 25 February 1914 in the village of Yelizaveto-Kamyanets that today is located in Dnipro, Ukraine into a peasant family. His sister was Horpyna Vatchenko, director of the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro. In 1938, he graduated from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University within the Department of Physics and Mathematics, and he then joined the CPSU in 1940. He was then promoted to party leadership roles in 1954, when he became Secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Party Committee.
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Who was Oleksiy Vatchenko?
Ukrainian and Soviet politician (1914–1984)
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Oleksiy Vatchenko was born on 25 February 1914 in Dnipro.
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Oleksiy Vatchenko died on 22 November 1984 in Kyiv.
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Oleksiy Vatchenko was a politician.
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Oleksiy Vatchenko was Russian.
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