Career
He was a head of editorial collegium for the 26 volume encyclopedia on "The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Born during the World War I in 1915 to peasant family in Sloboda Ukraine, Tronko started to work in 1932 in mines of Dzerzhynsk city in Donbas. Eventually after finishing some teacher classes, he worked as teacher of social sciences and Ukrainian language in village school of Bohodukhiv Raion and director of Lebedyn children home. Since 1937 he worked in Communist Youth League and in 1939 joined the Communist Party of Soviet Union.
In 1947 he was dismissed from the position due to accusations of Lazar Kaganovich in "nationalistic perversions".
In 1951-1960 Tronko worked for the Kiev regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and in 1960-1961 he headed the department of propaganda and ideological agitation for the party. During the next 17 years (1961-1978) Tronko worked as a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic taking care of matters on culture, education, healthcare, press, book publishing, cinema, radio and television broadcasting, social sciences and archives.
In 1969 Tronko initiated the creation of Pyrohiv scansen that was opened in 1976.
