Panas Lyubchenko

Panas Lyubchenko
Панас Любченко
Lyubchenko in January 1937
3rd Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR
In office 28 April 1934 – 30 August 1937
Preceded by	Vlas Chubar
Succeeded by	Mykhailo Bondarenko
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Born	(1897-01-14)14 January 1897 Kaharlyk, Kiev Governorate
Died	30 August 1937(1937-08-30) (aged 40) Moscow, Russian SFSR
Political party	SR (Ukraine) (1917–1919) Ukrainian Communist Party (Borotbists) (1919–1920) Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (1920–1937) All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1920–1937)
Alma mater	Kiev Military Nursing School
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Panas Petrovych Lyubchenko (Ukrainian: Панас Петрович Любченко; 14 January 1897 – 30 August 1937) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister) from 1934 to 1937.

Panas Lyubchenko was a member of the Ukrainian Central Council and the Central Committee elected by the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). He attended the Plenum of 23 February 1937.

In 1937, Lyubchenko shot his wife Maria Nikolaevna Krupenyk and then committed suicide after he was accused of treason by colluding with Ukrainian separatists who wished to detach Ukraine from the Soviet Union. Lyubchenko denied the allegations.