Petro Shelest | |
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.jpg) Shelest in 1972 | |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
| In office 23 June 1963 – 19 May 1972 | |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Podgorny |
| Succeeded by | Volodymyr Shcherbytsky |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 19 May 1972 – 7 May 1973 | |
| Premier | Alexei Kosygin |
| Full member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th Politburo | |
| In office 16 November 1964 – 27 April 1973 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 February 1908 Andriivtsi, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 22 January 1996 (aged 87) Moscow Oblast, Russia |
| Resting place | Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv |
| Nationality | Soviet Ukrainian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1928–1973) |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch/service | Red Army |
| Years of service | 1936–1937 |
Petro Yukhymovych Shelest[a] (14 February [O.S. 1 February] 1908 – 22 January 1996) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1965 until his removal in 1972. Ideologically a social moderate and a national communist, he oversaw a widespread liberalisation of Ukrainian society as part of the Khrushchev Thaw and Sixtier movement that led to increased visibility of the Ukrainian language and culture in public life. Shelest was removed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1972 and replaced with Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who undid much of Shelest's reforms and oversaw intensive Russification of Ukrainian society.
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