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This article lists the chairmen of the Supreme Soviet (Verkhovna Rada in Ukrainian) of Ukrainian SSR (1938–1991) and the chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since 1991).

List of chairmen

Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Party	Election	First Deputy	Deputy
1		Mykhailo Burmystenko	25 July 1938	9 September 1941	Communist (Bolsheviks)	1938
2		Oleksandr Korniychuk	1947	1953	Communist (Bolsheviks)	1947
3		Pavlo Tychyna	1953	1959	Communist	1953
4		Oleksandr Korniychuk	1959	1972	Communist	1959
5		Mykhailo Bilyi	1972	1980	Communist	1972
6		Kostiantyn Sytnyk	1980	1985	Communist	1980
7		Platon Kostiuk	1985	15 May 1990	Communist	1985
–		Ivan Plyushch	15 May 1990	4 June 1990	Communist	1990	–	–
8		Volodymyr Ivashko	4 June 1990	9 July 1990	Communist		Ivan Plyushch	Volodymyr Hrynyov
9		Leonid Kravchuk	23 July 1990	24 August 1991	Communist

Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

According to the parliamentary regulations, a chair person of the Ukrainian parliament during his or her term at the position, officially votes in the parliament among the non-affiliated group.

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political alliance	Parliament (Election)	First Deputy	Deputy
1		Leonid Kravchuk	24 August 1991	5 December 1991	Independent	I (1990)	Ivan Plyushch	Volodymyr Hrynyov
2		Ivan Plyushch	5 December 1991	11 May 1994	Independent		Vasyl Durdynets	Volodymyr Hrynyov
3		Oleksandr Moroz	18 May 1994	7 July 1998	Socialist Party of Ukraine	II (1994)	Oleksandr Tkachenko	Oleh Dyomin Viktor Musiyaka
4		Oleksandr Tkachenko	7 July 1998	21 January 2000	Communist Party of Ukraine	III (1998)	Adam Martyniuk	Viktor Medvedchuk
5		Ivan Plyushch	1 February 2000	14 May 2002	People's Democratic Party		Viktor Medvedchuk	Stepan Havrysh
6		Volodymyr Lytvyn	28 May 2002	6 July 2006	For United Ukraine	IV (2002)	Hennadiy Vasyliev Adam Martyniuk	Oleksandr Zinchenko
7		Oleksandr Moroz	6 July 2006	4 December 2007	Socialist Party of Ukraine	V (2006)	Adam Martyniuk	Mykola Tomenko
8		Arseniy Yatsenyuk	4 December 2007	12 November 2008	Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc	VI (2007)	Adam Martyniuk Oleksandr Lavrynovych	Mykola Tomenko
9		Volodymyr Lytvyn	9 December 2008	12 December 2012	People's Party (Lytvyn Bloc)		Oleksandr Lavrynovych Adam Martyniuk	Mykola Tomenko
10		Volodymyr Rybak	13 December 2012	22 February 2014	Party of Regions	VII (2012)	Ihor Kalietnik	Ruslan Koshulynskyi
11		Oleksandr Turchynov	22 February 2014	27 November 2014	Batkivshchyna		vacant	Ruslan Koshulynskyi
12		Volodymyr Groysman	27 November 2014	14 April 2016	Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"	VIII (2014)	Andriy Parubiy	Oksana Syroyid
13		Andriy Parubiy	14 April 2016	29 August 2019	People's Front		Iryna Herashchenko	Oksana Syroyid
14		Dmytro Razumkov	29 August 2019	7 October 2021	Servant of the People	IX (2019)	Ruslan Stefanchuk	Olena Kondratiuk
15		Ruslan Stefanchuk	8 October 2021	Incumbent			Oleksandr Kornienko	Olena Kondratiuk

See also

• Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
• Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada

Notes

1. temporarily heading
2. From July 9 to 23, Ivan Plyushch performed functions of Chairman ex officio as the First Deputy Chairman.
3. Initially as an MP of the Communist Party of Ukraine which was dissolved after the 1991 August Putsch
4. Initially as an MP of the Communist Party of Ukraine which was dissolved after the 1991 August Putsch
5. From November 12 to December 9, 2008, Oleksandr Lavrynovych performed functions of Chairman ex officio as the First Deputy Chairman.
6. During his term as Chairman, Turchynov switched allegiance to People's Front, which was established on 10 September 2014. People's Front did not take part in the 2012 parliamentary election and it never had a political faction in parliament prior to the 2014 parliamentary election.

References

1. Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 11-XII: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR. Adopted on 1990-06-04. (Ukrainian)
2. Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 63-XII: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR. Adopted on 1990-07-23. (Ukrainian)
3. Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 1930-XII: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 1991-12-05. (Ukrainian)
4. Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 14/94-ВР: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 1994-05-18. (Ukrainian)
5. Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 31-XIV: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 1998-07-07. (Ukrainian)
6. Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 10-IV: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 2002-05-28. (Ukrainian)
7. Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 7-V: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 2006-07-06. (Ukrainian)
8. Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 5-VI: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Adopted on 2007-12-04. (Ukrainian)
9. "Rada Dismisses Yatseniuk". Ukrainian News Agency. November 12, 2008. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012.
10. "President Yuschenko: Dismissal Of Yatseniuk Aimed Against Stabilization Of Situation In Country". Ukrainian News Agency. November 12, 2008. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013.
11. (in Ukrainian)Yatsenyuk became a leader of the "People's Front" political council, while Turchynov is a head of its headquarters. Ukrayinska Pravda. 10 September 2014
    Ukrainian PM, Parliament Speaker to Head Newly Formed Popular Front Party, RIA Novosti (10 September 2014)
12. (in Ukrainian) Депутатські фракції і групи VII скликання Deputy fractions and Groups VII convocation, Verkhovna Rada official website (oktober 7, 2014)
13. Oleksandr Turchynov was not a parliamentary of the People Front however until after the next elections. Verkhovna Rada website.

External links

• "Official website of the Chairman". Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
• Высшие органы государственной власти Украинской ССР (Supreme authorities of state power of the Ukrainian SSR).
• Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991.

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