Petro Shelest

Petro Shelest
Petro Shelest
Петро Шелест
	Shelest in 1972
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
	In office; 23 June 1963 – 19 May 1972
Preceded by	Nikolai Podgorny
Succeeded by	Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
	In office; 19 May 1972 – 7 May 1973
Premier	Alexei Kosygin
Full member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th Politburo
	In office; 16 November 1964 – 27 April 1973
Personal details
Born	14 February 1908; Andriivtsi, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire; (now Ukraine)
Died	22 January 1996 (aged 87); Moscow Oblast, Russia
Resting place	Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv
Nationality	Soviet ; Ukrainian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1928–1973)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch/service	Red Army
Years of service	1936–1937

Petro Yukhymovych Shelest^[a] (14 February [O.S. 1 February] 1908 – 22 January 1996) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1965 until his removal in 1972. Ideologically a social moderate and a national communist, he oversaw a widespread liberalisation of Ukrainian society as part of the Khrushchev Thaw and Sixtier movement that led to increased visibility of the Ukrainian language and culture in public life. Shelest was removed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1972 and replaced with Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who undid much of Shelest's reforms and oversaw intensive Russification of Ukrainian society.
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