Aleksey Kirichenko
Alexei Kirichenko | |
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| Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 17 December 1957 – 5 April 1960 | |
| Preceded by | Mikhail Suslov |
| Succeeded by | Frol Kozlov |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
| In office 12 June 1953 – 26 December 1957 | |
| Preceded by | Leonid Melnikov |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Podgorny |
| Full member of the 19th, 20th Presidium | |
| In office 12 July 1955 – 4 May 1960 | |
| Member of the 20th Secretariat | |
| In office 17 December 1957 – 5 April 1960 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 February 1908 Chornobaivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 28 December 1975 (aged 67) Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1938-1962) |
| Profession | Mechanical engineer, civil servant |
Alexei Illarionovich Kirichenko (25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1908 – 28 December 1975) was a Soviet Ukrainian politician, who was the first ethnic Ukrainian to head the republic's communist party during the Soviet era. Between 1957 and 1960, he was a Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the second-highest-ranking official within the party after Nikita Khrushchev.