Leonid Hrach Explained

Leonid Hrach
Native Name Lang:uk
Office:Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea
Term Start:May 14, 1998
Term End:April 29, 2002
Predecessor:Anatoliy Hrytsenko
Successor:Boris Deich
Office1:People's Deputy of Ukraine
Convocation1:4th convocation
Constituency1:Communist Party of Ukraine, 11th on party list
Term Start1:May 14, 2002[1]
Term End1:May 25, 2006
Convocation2:5th convocation
Constituency2:Communist Party of Ukraine, 19th on party list
Term Start2:May 25, 2006[2]
Term End2:November 23, 2007
Convocation3:6th convocation
Constituency3:Communist Party of Ukraine, 21st on party list
Term Start3:November 23, 2007[3]
Term End3:December 12, 2012
Birth Date:January 1, 1948
Birth Place:Brodetske village, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality:Ukrainian

Leonid Ivanovych Hrach (Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іва́нович Гра́ч), also as Leonid Ivanovich Grach (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Гра́ч), is a Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian politician.

Biography

Hrach was born in a town of Brodetske, Vinnytsia Oblast on 1 January 1948.

He was a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in 1998 - 2002 and the 1st secretary of the Crimean republican committee of CPU in 1991. Hrach stayed the leader of communists in Crimea until 2010 when he was officially excluded from communists ranks by leadership of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, Hrach joined the Russian political party Communists of Russia along with the Crimean republican committee of the Communist Marxist–Leninist Party of Ukraine.[4]

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  1. http://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/expage/5381/5 Leonid Hrach
  2. http://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/expage/5381/6 Leonid Hrach
  3. http://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/expage/5381/7 Leonid Hrach
  4. http://komros.info/News/News_2375.html The legendary Leonid Grach became a head of the Crimean regional department of the Communist of Russia party