All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee

All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee

Всеукраїнський центральний виконавчий комітет
All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee ; Всеукраїнський центральний виконавчий комітет
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Succeeded by	Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Leadership
1st Chairman	Yukhym Medvedev, USDRP (left) ; since December 24, 1917
2nd Chairman	Volodymyr Zatonsky, Bolshevik ; since March 19, 1918
3rd Chairman	Hryhoriy Petrovsky, CP(b)U ; since March 10, 1919
Structure
Seats	variable
Political groups	Communists
Political groups	non-Communists
Meeting place
	Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR (until 1934); Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR (from 1934)

All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (Ukrainian: Всеукраїнський центральний виконавчий комітет, romanized: Vseukrainskyi tsentralnyi vykonavchyi komitet) was a representative body of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets. It was the supreme legislative, administrative, executive controlling state power of Soviet Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR) between the sessions of the Congress of Soviets that acted between 1917 until 1938. In the very beginning this institution was established as the Central Executive Committee of Soviet of Ukraine at the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets in Kharkiv on December 24–25, 1917. At the same congress was elected the People's Secretariat of Ukraine.

On March 19, 1919, the committee issued a declaration, in which it passed most of its authority to the Sovnarkom of Ukraine at that time headed by Christian Rakovsky.