Vladimir Ivashko

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Vladimir Ivashko
Владимир Ивашко Володимир Івашко
Acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office 24 August – 29 August 1991
Preceded by	Mikhail Gorbachev
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Deputy General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office 12 July 1990 – 29 August 1991
General Secretary	Mikhail Gorbachev
Preceded by	Yegor Ligachev
Succeeded by	Position abolished
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office 28 September 1989 – 22 June 1990
Preceded by	Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
Succeeded by	Stanislav Hurenko
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR
In office 4 June – 9 July 1990
Preceded by	Platon Kostiuk
Succeeded by	Leonid Kravchuk
Full member of the 27th, 28th Politburo
In office 9 December 1989 – 29 August 1991
Member of the 28th Secretariat
In office 14 July 1990 – 29 August 1991
Personal details
Born	28 October 1932 Poltava, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	13 November 1994(1994-11-13) (aged 62) Moscow, Russian Federation
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko (Russian: Влади́мир Анто́нович Ива́шко; Ukrainian: Володимир Антонович Івашко, Volodymyr Antonovych Ivashko; 28 October 1932 – 13 November 1994) was a Soviet Ukrainian politician, briefly acting as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the period from 24 to 29 August 1991. On 24 August Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from the post, and on 29 August the CPSU was suspended by the Supreme Soviet. Before becoming General Secretary he had been voted Gorbachev's Deputy General Secretary within the Party on 12 July 1990, a newly created position as a result of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party.