Mykhailo Bilyi

Mykhailo Bilyi
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR
In office
1972–1980
Preceded byOleksandr Korniychuk
Succeeded byKostiantyn Sytnyk
Rector of the Kyiv University
In office
1970–1985
Preceded byIvan Shvets
Succeeded byViktor Skopenko
Personal details
Born(1922-11-12)12 November 1922
Moskali, Chernihiv Governorate, Ukrainian SSR
Died5 August 2001(2001-08-05) (aged 78)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)

Mykhailo Ulyanovych Bilyi (Ukrainian: Михайло Улянович Білий; 12 November 1922 – 5 August 2001) was a Ukrainian and Soviet physicist and politician, who served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1972 to 1980. Since 1969 he was a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (then the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR).