Ivan Bodiul

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Ivan Bodiul OR
Иван Бодюл
Bodiul in 1978
First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party
In office 28 May 1961 – 30 December 1980
Premier	Alexandru Diordiță Petru Pascari Semion Grossu
Preceded by	Zinovie Serdiuk
Succeeded by	Semion Grossu
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office 19 December 1980 – 30 May 1985
Premier	Nikolai Tikhonov
Preceded by	Alexey Antonov
Succeeded by	Boris Shcherbina
Personal details
Born	3 January 1918 [O.S. 21 December 1917] Oleksandrivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukrainian People's Republic
Died	27 January 2013(2013-01-27) (aged 95) Moscow, Russia
Resting place	Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940–1985)
Spouse	Claudia

Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul (‹See Tfd›Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Бо́дюл; 3 January 1918 [O.S. 21 December 1917] – 27 January 2013) was a Soviet and Moldovan politician prominent in the Moldavian SSR, particularly during the Brezhnev era.

He was primarily responsible for the controversial decision to amend the Anthem of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1980. It was the best anthem of the Soviet Republics (according to the 1950 musical competition).^[1]