Mykhailo Kushnerenko

Mykhailo Kushnerenko
Михайло Кушнеренко
Governor of Kherson Oblast
In office
28 July 1997 – 7 April 1998
Preceded byYurii Karasyk
Succeeded byAnatoliy Kasyanenko
Chairman of the Kherson Oblast Council
In office
5 April 1990 – July 1994
Succeeded byVitaly Zholobov
Chairman of the Kherson Regional executive committee
In office
January 1991 – March 1992
Preceded byOleksandr Melnikov
Succeeded byposition abolished
In office
21 December 1983 – 11 July 1987
Preceded byVasily Metlyaev
Succeeded byOleksandr Melnikov
First Secretary of the Kherson Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office
23 June 1987 – August 1991
Preceded byAndriy Hirenko
Succeeded byposition abolished
Personal details
BornMykhailo Mykhailovych Kushnerenko
(1938-08-18)August 18, 1938
DiedApril 2, 2021(2021-04-02) (aged 82)
PartyCPSU

Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kushnerenko (Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Кушнеренко; 18 August 1938 – 2 April 2021) was a Ukrainian politician.[1] He served as Governor of Kherson Oblast from 1997 to 1998, was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1989 to 1991. Kushnerenko also served on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukrainian SSR from 1989 to 1991.

Early life

Kushnerenko was born on 18 August 1938 in Strohanivka, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[2] After graduating from the Kherson Agricultural Institute, he worked as an inspector-organizer for the Kakhovka Production Collective for the kolkhoz there, before later working as a chief agronomist for a state farm in Tsiurupynsk Raion.[2]

Political career

In 1970, he was appointed Head of the Agricultural Department of the Tsiurupynsk Raion Executive Committee, before becoming chairman of the local kolkhoz within Tsiurupynsk.[2] In 1975, he was also appointed Chairman of the Hola Prystan Raion.[2]

After graduating from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPU, he started taking on higher positions within the Communist Party.[2] In September 1979, he was appointed First Secretary of the Velyka Oleksandrivka District Committee, and by January 1983 was Head of the Agricultural Department of the Kherson Oblast Committee.[2] From 1983 to 1987 he was Chairman of the Kherson Regional Executive Committee, and finally from 1987 up until the collapse of the Soviet Union he was First Secretary of the Kherson Regional Committee.[2]

Personal life

Kushnerenko died of complications from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.[3]

References

  1. ^ "У Херсоні пішов з життя видатний державний діяч Михайло Кушнеренко". ЛЮБИМЫЙ ХЕРСОН (in Ukrainian). 2 April 2021. Archived from the original on 14 February 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Довідка: Кушнеренко Михайло Михайлович". dovidka.com.ua. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  3. ^ "В Херсоне от последствий заражения коронавирусом умер бывший глава обладминистрации". ЛЮБИМЫЙ ХЕРСОН (in Russian). 2 April 2021.