Petro Shelest was the First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian SSR, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet. Petro Shelest was born in a peasant Ukrainian family in a village near Kharkiv in 1908. In 1928 he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and in 1935 graduated from Mariupol' Metallurgical Institute. Wikipedia
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