Olexander Liashko

Oleksandr Pavlovych Liashko (; – 9 October 2002) was a Soviet Ukrainian politician. He served as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR (a role equivalent to today's Prime Minister of Ukraine) for more than 15 years, making him the longest-serving person in that position. Liashko was also a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1989. In 1985, he was honored with the Hero of Socialist Labour award.

Biography

Oleksandr Liashko was born into a family of a railway worker in Rodakove, located in present-day Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. He attended a technical school and later matriculated at the Donetsk Industrial Institute in 1937.

Awards

Hero of Socialist Labour (29 December 1985) Order of Lenin (29 December 1965, 25 August 1971, 8 December 1973, 29 December 1975, 22 December 1977 and 29 December 1985) Order of the Patriotic War, I class (11 March 1985) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (20 August 1957 and 26 February 1958) Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 5th class (29 December 2000)