Rostyslav Babiychuk
Minister of Culture of Ukrainian SSR
In office
10 July 1956 – 15 November 1971
Preceded byKostiantyn Lytvyn
Succeeded byYuriy Yelchenko
First Secretary of Zhytomyr Oblast committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office
16 September 1951 – 5 May 1952
Preceded bySerhiy Kostyuchenko
Succeeded byOleksiy Fedorov
Personal details
Born(1911-02-14)14 February 1911
Kishinev, Bessarabian Governorate, Russian Empire
Died11 January 2013(2013-01-11) (aged 101)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union

Rostyslav Volodymyrovych Babiychuk (Ukrainian: Ростислав Володимирович Бабійчук; 14 February 1911 – 11 January 2013) was a Soviet and Ukrainian party and state official.

Biography

Rostyslav Babiychuk was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (today Chișinău, Moldova) in a family of railway workers.[1] He joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) in 1939 and headed department of propaganda and agitation at the Odessa Railways Khrystynivka department, while being an instructor at the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.

During the World War II he worked at the Northern Railway in Ivanovo.

In 1951–1952 Babiychuk was the First Secretary of Zhytomyr Oblast committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. In 1954–1976 he was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In 1956–1971 Babiychuk was a Minister of Culture of Ukraine.

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