Fyodor Brovko

Fyodor Brovko
Fyodor Brovko
Fiodor Brovko; Фёдор Бровко
	Brovko in 1950
1st Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR
	In office; 10 February 1941 – 26 March 1951
Premier	Tihon Konstantinov; Nicolae Coval; Gherasim Rudi
Succeeded by	Ion Codiță
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian ASSR
	In office; 7 June 1940 – 8 February 1941
Preceded by	Grigory Staryy
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	Fyodor Grigoryevich Brovko; 16 May 1904; Popencu, Russian Empire (now Popencu, Rîbnița District, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic)
Died	24 January 1960 (aged 55); Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Political party	CPSU
Awards

Fyodor Grigoryevich Brovko (Romanian: Fiodor Brovko; Russian: Фёдор Григо́рьевич Бровко́; 16 May 1904 – 24 January 1960) was a Soviet and Moldavian politician who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1941 to 1951.^[1]

Early life and education

Fyodor Brovko was born to a poor peasant family in the village of Popencu in the Russian Empire on May 16, 1904.^[2] He graduated from a Communist Party school in Balta in 1930.^{[citation needed]}

Brovko joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1927.^[3] From 1930 to 1937, he worked as the Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation for the Dubossary, Kotovsky, and Slobozia District Committees of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). In 1937, he was appointed as the First Secretary of the Slobozia District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1938 to 1940, he served as the Deputy Chairman and the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On March 1, 1941, Brovko was elected as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldavia. From June 7, 1940, to February 8, 1941, he served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian ASSR.^[4] During a purge of party officials in 1951, Brovko was removed from his post. He worked in minor positions in the Moldavian SSR from 1951 to 1958.

He was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union for the 2nd and 3rd convocations.^[5]