Leonid Korniyets

Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive CommitteeIn office
March 1938 – 25 July 1938Preceded byGrigory PetrovskySucceeded byposition transformedChairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of UkraineIn office
27 July 1938 – 28 July 1939Preceded byposition createdSucceeded byMykhailo Hrechukha7th Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSRIn office
6 August 1939 – 16 February 1944Preceded byDemyan KorotchenkoSucceeded byNikita Khrushchev Personal detailsBorn(1901-08-21)21 August 1901
Bobrynets, Yelisavetgradsky Uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian EmpireDied29 May 1969(1969-05-29) (aged 67)
Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet UnionPolitical partyCPSU (1926–1969)Signature

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.^[1]

Leonid Korniyets was born in a town of Bobrynets that today is in Kirovohrad Oblast, central Ukraine.

Political offices
Preceded by position created	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR 1938-1939	Succeeded by Mykhailo Hrechukha
Preceded by Demyan Korotchenko	Prime Minister of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR) 1939–1944	Succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev