Leonid Kravchuk

Leonid Kravchuk
Леонід Кравчук
Kravchuk in 1991
1st President of Ukraine
In office
5 December 1991 – 19 July 1994
Acting: 24 August – 5 December 1991
Prime Minister
Preceded byMykola Plaviuk (as the last President in exile)[a]
Himself (as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada)
Succeeded byLeonid Kuchma
1st Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
24 August 1991 – 5 December 1991
Preceded byHimself (as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet)
Succeeded byIvan Plyushch
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR
In office
23 July 1990 – 24 August 1991
Preceded byVladimir Ivashko
Succeeded byHimself (as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and President of Ukraine)
Member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office
4 June 1988 – 5 December 1990
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
15 May 1990 – 5 December 1991
ConstituencyVinnytsia Oblast, No. 39 (1990–1991)[1]
In office
25 September 1994 – 25 May 2006
ConstituencyTernopil Oblast, No. 364 (1994–1998)[2]
SDPU(o), No. 1 (1998–2002)[3]
SDPU(o), No. 5 (2002–2006)[4]
Personal details
Born(1934-01-10)10 January 1934
Żytyń Wielki, Wołyń Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
(now Velykyi Zhytyn, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine)
Died10 May 2022(2022-05-10) (aged 88)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Resting placeBaikove Cemetery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) (1994–2009)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1958–1991)
Independent (1991–1994)
Spouse
(m. 1957)
Children1
Residence(s)Koncha-Zaspa, Kyiv, Ukraine
Alma materKyiv State University (1958)
Academy of Social Sciences of the CPSU (1970)
OccupationPolitician
Signature

Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук, IPA: [ˈlɛ.ɔ.nʲid mɐˈka.rɔ.ʋet͡ʃ krɐu̯ˈt͡ʃuk]; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed the Lisbon Protocol, undertaking to give up Ukraine's nuclear arsenal. He was also the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and a People's Deputy of Ukraine serving in the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) faction.

After a political crisis involving the president and the prime minister, Kravchuk resigned from the presidency, but ran for a second term as president in 1994. He was defeated by his former prime minister, Leonid Kuchma, who then served as president for two terms. After his presidency, Kravchuk remained active in Ukrainian politics, serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of the parliamentary group of Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) from 2002 to 2006.


Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).

  1. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the I convocation" (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine official portal. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the II convocation" (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine official portal. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the III convocation" (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine official portal. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  4. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation" (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine official portal. Retrieved 22 December 2014.