Leonid Hrach

 ( 1948 Births ) 

Leonid Ivanovych Hrach (), also as Leonid Ivanovich Grach (), (1 January 1948 – October 2025) was a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian politician.

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Life and career Hrach was born in the town of Brodetske, Vinnytsia Oblast on 1 January 1948.

He was a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in 1998–2002 and the 1st secretary of the Crimean republican committee of CPU in 1991. Hrach stayed the leader of communists in Crimea until 2010 when he was officially excluded from communists ranks by leadership of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, Hrach joined the Russian political party Communists of Russia along with the Crimean republican committee of the Communist Marxist–Leninist Party of Ukraine. The legendary Leonid Grach became a head of the Crimean regional department of the Communist of Russia party. Communists of Russia website. 5 April 2014

Hrach died in October 2025, at the age of 77. Помер Леонід Грач, колишній спікер Верховної Ради Криму та екс-нардеп України

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See also

• 1994 Crimean presidential election

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Notes

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External links

• Leonid Hrach personal website as member of the Communists of Russia
• Crimean Oblast at the Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
• Crimean ASSR at the Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
• Ukraine at worldstatesmen.org
• Matola, V. In Ukraine are registered 14 pro-Russian parties. The Ukrainian Week. 21 May 2013.

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