Leonid Korniyets

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Romanovych and the family name is Korniyets.

Leonid Korniyets
Леонід Корнієць
Korniyets in 1939
Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
In office March 1938 – 25 July 1938
Preceded by	Grigory Petrovsky
Succeeded by	position transformed
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine
In office 27 July 1938 – 28 July 1939
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	Mykhailo Hrechukha
7th Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR
In office 6 August 1939 – 16 February 1944
Preceded by	Demyan Korotchenko
Succeeded by	Nikita Khrushchev
Personal details
Born	(1901-08-21)21 August 1901 Bobrynets, Yelisavetgradsky Uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	29 May 1969(1969-05-29) (aged 67) Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Party	CPSU (1926–1969)
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Leonid Romanovych Korniyets (Ukrainian: Леонід Романович Корнієць; 21 August 1901 – 29 May 1969) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the head of government of Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister) from 1939 to 1944.

Early life

Leonid Korniyets was born on 21 August 1908 in the village of Bobrynets that today is in Kirovohrad Oblast, central Ukraine into a landless labourer's family. After graduating from a workers' faculty (rabfak), he completed his higher studies at the Kharkiv Institute of National Economy. For the next few years until he entered politics, he worked in industriial administration, economic planning, and in some managerial positions.

Political career

After joining the Communist Party of Ukraine (CP(b)U) in 1926. Starting in 1931, he started to held some senior party positions including People’s Commissariat of Light Industry of the Ukrainian SSR and positions within the Council of People’s Commissars (RNK) of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1938, he held the post of Second Secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the CP(b)U. Then, from 1938 to 1939, he served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. Finally, from 1939 to 1944, he was the 7th Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR. During World War II, he served as a leader in the Ukrainian partisan movement, and served as a member of military councils on several fronts, achieving the rank of lieutenant general.

In 1944, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR, until 1946 when he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1950, he was promoted to Deputy Chairman, which he served as until 1953. He was then Minister of Procurement of the USSR, which in 1956 was renamed to Minister of Grain Products.