title: Odesa Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
text: # Odesa Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
  
  The Odesa Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Одеський обласний комітет Комуністичної партії України, romanized: Odeskyi oblasnyi komitet Komunistychnoi partii Ukrainy), commonly referred to as the Odesa CPU obkom (Ukrainian: Одеський обком КП України, romanized: Odeskyi obkom KP Ukrainy), was the position of highest authority in the Odesa Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created on February 27, 1932, and abolished in August 1991. The First Secretary was a de facto appointed position usually by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine or the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
  
  ## List of First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Odesa
  
  | Name | Term of Office | Term of Office | Life years |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Name | Start | End | Life years |
  | First Secretaries of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party ||||
  | Mykhailo Mayorov | February 1932 | February 11, 1933 | 1890–1938 |
  | Yevhen Veher | February 11, 1933 | July 1937 | 1899–1938 |
  | Dmytro Yevtushenko | July 1937 | September 28, 1937 | 1898–1938 |
  | Mykola Kondakov | September 28, 1937 | May 4, 1938 | 1901–1938 |
  | Hryhoriy Teleshev | May 4, 1938 | January 1939 | 1902–1978 |
  | Anatoliy Kolybanov | 1939 | August 1941 | 1905–1978 |
  | Romanian occupation (part of the Transnistria Governorate, 1941–1944) ||||
  | Anatoliy Kolybanov | 1944 | July 1945 | 1905–1978 |
  | Oleksiy Kirichenko | July 1945 | December 1949 | 1908–1975 |
  | Oleksiy Yepishev | January 1950 | September 4, 1951 | 1908–1985 |
  | Vasyl Markov | September 4, 1951 | March 29, 1953 | 1905–1978 |
  | Oleksiy Yepishev | March 29, 1953 | August 13, 1955 | 1908–1985 |
  | Leontiy Naydek | August 13, 1955 | January 11, 1958 | 1907–1992 |
  | Oleksandr Fedoseyev | January 11, 1958 | February 8, 1961 | 1909–1975 |
  | Mykhailo Synytsya | February 8, 1961 | May 8, 1970 | 1913–1985 |
  | Petro Doroshenko | January 14, 1963 | December 1964 | 1907–19.. |
  | Pavlo Kozyr | May 8, 1970 | July 1977 | 1913–19.. |
  | Mykola Kirichenko | July 1977 | October 12, 1983 | 1923–1986 |
  | Anatoliy Nochovkin | October 12, 1983 | November 4, 1988 | 1928– |
  | Georgiy Kryuchkov | November 4, 1988 | April 3, 1990 | 1929– |
  | Ruslan Bodelyan | April 3, 1990 | August 1991 | 1942– |
  