First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Первый Секретарь ЦК КПУ Перший Секретар ЦК КПУ
Emblem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Final officeholder Stanislav Hurenko 23 June 1990 – 30 August 1991
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Style	Comrade First Secretary
Status	Party leader (republican level)
Member of	Politburo Secretariat Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Residence	Bankova Street
Seat	Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
Appointer	Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Constituting instrument	Party statutes
Formation	Secretary of the Organizational Bureau: 20 April 1918 Secretary: 12 July 1918 First Secretary: 23 November 1920 General Secretary: 20 March 1925 – 23 January 1934
First holder	Mykola Skrypnyk as Secretary of the Organizational Bureau Georgy Pyatakov as First Secretary
Final holder	Stanislav Gurenko as First Secretary
Abolished	30 August 1991[1]
Succession	Liquidated and banned due to support for the State Committee on the State of Emergency President of Ukraine
Deputy	Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine

The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Перший Секретар ЦК КПУ, Russian: Первый Секретарь ЦК КПУ) was a party leader of the republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The office's name alternated throughout its history between First Secretary and the General Secretary.

The secretary was the de facto leader of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic through Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution, which made the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the "leading and guiding force of the Soviet society". These powers were revoked with the revision to Article 6 on 24 October 1990 that removed the Communist Party's monopoly on power.^[2]

The First Secretary was elected at a plenum (plenary session) of the Central Committee, while each Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine was elected at the each Party's Congress. The longest serving secretary was Volodymyr Shcherbytsky^[3] with some 17 years.