Andriy Hirenko

Andriy Mykolayevich Hirenko (or Andrei Nikolayevich Girenko) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician from before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He headed the Komsomol of Ukraine and was the 1st Party Secretary in Kherson and Crimea.

Hirenko was born in 1936 as Adolf which he changed in 1972.^[1] He died in late December 2017.^[2]

References

^ Hamolsky, L. Simply lilac bloomed.... "Dnepr Vecherniy" newspaper. 30 January 2012
^ "Накануне Нового года ушел из жизни Андрей Гиренко". kherson.net.ua (in Russian). 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2018-01-30.

Crimean Oblast at the Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
Ukraine at worldstatesmen.org
Brief bio at the Kherson regional universal science library
Hirenko at the Great Biographic Encyclopedia
Hirenko at hrono.ru

Party political offices
Preceded by Aleksandr Kapto (Oleksandr Kapto)	1st Secretary of the Komsomol of Ukraine 1972–1975	Succeeded by Anatoliy Kornienko (Anatoliy Koniyenko)
Preceded by Ivan Mozgovoi (Ivan Mozghovyi)	1st Secretary of the Kherson Oblast Committee 1980–1987	Succeeded by Mikhail Kushnerenko (Mykhailo Kushnerenko)
Preceded by Viktor Makarenko	1st Secretary of the Crimean Oblast Committee 1987–1989	Succeeded by Nikolai Bagrov (Mykola Bahrov)