The first President of Ukraine was Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk. He was elected on December 1, 1991, and served until July 19, 1994. Kravchuk was born on January 10, 1934, in the village of Velikyi Zhytyn, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He is of Ukrainian ethnicity and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1960 to 1991. Kravchuk began his political career in the...
Ukraine’s Presidential Genesis: The First to Lead
U
