Aleksey Kirichenko

Aleksey Kirichenko
Олексій Кириченко
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	(1908-02-26)26 February 1908 Chornobaivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	28 December 1975(1975-12-28) (aged 67) Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1938-1962)
Profession	Mechanical engineer, civil servant

Aleksey Illarionovich Kirichenko^[a] (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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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