Mykola Marchak
acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR
In office
13 October 1937 – 21 February 1938
Preceded byMykhailo Bondarenko
Succeeded byDemyan Korotchenko
Personal details
Born(1904-01-08)8 January 1904
Zalistsi, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire
Died23 September 1938(1938-09-23) (aged 34)
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1921–1938)

Mykola Makarovych Marchak (Ukrainian: Микола Макарович Марчак; 5 January 1904 – 23 September 1938) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who was the acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister) from October 1937 to February 1938.[1]

He was a son of a peasant and was a member of the Russian Communist Party (b) from 1921.

On 20 June 1938, Marchak was arrested and accused of belonging to an anti-Soviet Trotskyist organization. On 23 September 1938, Marchak was found guilty by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR and was sentenced to death. Marchak was rehabilitated by the resolution of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of 17 June 1958.

Biography

Mykola Marchak was born in a peasant family in a small village in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, western Ukraine.

References

  1. ↑ "МАРЧАК, Микола Макарович" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 29 May 2017.
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