Leonid Korniyets
Леонід Корнієць
Korniyets in 1939
Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
In office March 1938 – 25 July 1938
Preceded by	Grigory Petrovsky
Succeeded by	position transformed
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine
In office 27 July 1938 – 28 July 1939
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	Mykhailo Hrechukha
7th Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR
In office 6 August 1939 – 16 February 1944
Preceded by	Demyan Korotchenko
Succeeded by	Nikita Khrushchev
Personal details
Born	(1901-08-21)21 August 1901 Bobrynets, Yelisavetgradsky Uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	29 May 1969(1969-05-29) (aged 67) Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	CPSU (1926–1969)
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Leonid Romanovych Korniyets (Ukrainian: Леонід Романович Корнієць; 21 August 1901 – 29 May 1969) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the head of government of Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister) from 1939 to 1944.^[1]

Leonid Korniyets was born in a town of Bobrynets that today is in Kirovohrad Oblast, central Ukraine.