Background
Shcherbitskii, Vladimir was born on February 17, 1918 in Verkhnedneprovsk, now Dnepropetrovsk Oblast’. Son of a worker.
Shcherbitskii, Vladimir was born on February 17, 1918 in Verkhnedneprovsk, now Dnepropetrovsk Oblast’. Son of a worker.
Graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Chemical Technology, 1941.
Komsomol worker, 1934-1935. High commands in the army, 1941 — 45. Engineer at a coke-chemical plant in Dneprodzerzhinsk, 1945-1946.
Secretary of the party cttee. at the same plant, 1946-1948. Various senior party positions in Dneprodzerzhinsk, and in Dnepropetrovsk, 1948-1961. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, 1965-1972.
Elected to the Politburo on 9 April 1971. 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian CP from 25 May 1972. Member of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet from 20 Sep.
1972. The last surviving Brezhnevite during the Gorbachev years.