Ivan Turyanytsia | |
|---|---|
| 1st secretary of Zakarpattia regional committee of CP(b)U until 1946 as 1st secretary of the Communist Party of Zakarpattia Ukraine | |
| In office 1944[1]–1948 | |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Kompanets |
| Chairman of the People's Council of Zakarpattia Ukraine | |
| In office 1944[1]–1946 | |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | unknown |
| Chairman of the Ispolkom of Zakarpattia Oblast council | |
| In office 1946[1]–1951 | |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Vash |
| In office 1952[1]–1955 | |
| Preceded by | Ivan Vash |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Harahonych |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1901-05-25)25 May 1901 Rápigy,Máramaros County,Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 27 March 1955(1955-03-27) (aged 53)[1] |
| Party | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1925–1939) All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1939–1955) Communist Party (b) of Ukraine |
Ivan Ivanovych Turyanytsia (Ukrainian:Іван Іванович Туряниця; 25 May 1901 – 27 March 1955) was aCzechoslovak,Ukrainian andSoviet politician, who served as the chairman of the People's Council of Zakarpattia Ukraine from 1944 to 1946 and the First secretary of the Communist Party of Zakarpattia Ukraine.
On several occasions he was elected to the Central Committee of theCommunist Party (b) of Ukraine.[1]
Turyanytsia was born on 25 May 1901 in a village of Rápigy (now Ryapid) nearMunkács,Hungary,Austria-Hungary (now Mukachevo, Ukraine).[1]
DuringWorld War I, he served as a soldier of theAustro-Hungarian army, later in 1919 in the Zakarpattia Red Guards of theHungarian Soviet Republic.[1] The same year Turyanytsia was arrested and placed inconcentration camp inPrešov, but by December 1919 he was released.[1]
In 1924–1925 Turyanytsia served in theCzechoslovak Army and after that joined theCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ).[1] In 1927–1928 he was a chairman of the Mukacheve Trade Union of Builders and then in 1928–1929 a secretary of the Mukacheve city committee of the KSČ.[1] In 1929 Turyanytsia was arrested again, but then soon was released.[1]
In 1930 Turyanytsia was a secretary of the Uzhhorod zupa committee KSČ.[1] In 1930–1933 he studied in theSoviet Union and graduated the Kharkiv Communist Institute of Journalism.[2] In 1933–1939 he was a secretary of the Subcarpathian regional council of Red Trade Unions.[1] During that period in 1936 he was arrested one more time, but again soon was released.[1]
In March 1939 Turyanytsia emigrated to theSoviet Union[1] and joined theInternational Red Aid organization (1939–1940).[1] In 1940–1941 he worked as an economist planner at the Steam Locomotive Factory of the October Revolution (todayLuhanskteplovoz) in Voroshilovgrad.[1]
In 1943–1944, Turyanytsia commanded the 3rd Brigade of theSoviet Czechoslovak Corps.[1] Upon liberation of theCarpathian Ruthenia in 1944, he became the 1st secretary of the Communist Party of Zakarpattia Ukraine and a chairman of the People's Council of Zakarpattia Ukraine.[1] In 1944–1945, he also played a key role in the deportation of the local Hungarian and German-speaking civilian population out of Zakarpattia[3] first toSzolyva, then to Galicia and the rest of the Soviet Union.[4]
Since 1947, Turyanytsia was a member of the Presidium of theVerkhovna Rada and since 1949 the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.[2] He was a member of theSupreme Soviet of the Soviet Union 2nd and 3rd convocations and theVerkhovna Rada 2nd–4th convocations.[2]
He died on 27 March 1955 inUzhhorod.[1]