Leonid Kravchuk

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Leonid Kravchuk was the first President of independent Ukraine and a key political leader in the final stages of the Soviet Union’s collapse.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf President of Ukraine
human
politician
awardReceived Order of Liberty (Ukraine)
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
causeOfDeath heart disease
countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Ukraine
dateOfBirth 1934-01-10
dateOfDeath 2022-05-10
describedBySource Ukrainian independence movement
educatedAt Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
electedIn 1991 Ukrainian presidential election
endTime 1994-07-19
ethnicGroup Ukrainians
familyName Kravchuk
fieldOfWork politics
givenName Leonid NERFINISHED
headOfGovernment Ukraine
headOfStateOf Ukraine
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned Russian
Ukrainian
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)
Verkhovna Rada
nativeLanguage Ukrainian
notableFor being the first President of independent Ukraine
notableWork role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union
officeContested Volodymyr Zelenskyy
surface form: President of Ukraine
participantIn Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
surface form: 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum

1991 Ukrainian presidential election
Belavezha Accords
dissolution of the Soviet Union
placeOfBirth Rivne Oblast
Second Polish Republic
Velykyi Zhytyn
placeOfDeath Kyiv
Ukraine
positionHeld Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
People's Deputy of Ukraine
President of Ukraine
precededBy office created
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy
residence Kyiv
sexOrGender male
significantEvent Belavezha Accords
surface form: signing of the Belavezha Accords
startTime 1991-12-05
succeededBy Leonid Kuchma
workLocation Kyiv

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Stanislav Shushkevich coSignedWith Leonid Kravchuk
Belavezha Accords signatoryLeader Leonid Kravchuk