Fedir Hlukh

Fedir Hlukh was born into a peasant family on 18 September 1912 in the village of Beieve, Romny Raion, Sumy Oblast.

After completing a seven-year rural school, he studied at the Hadiach Pedagogical College, finishing three years of the course in 1933. He began his career in June 1933 as a teacher at a junior secondary school in the Luhansk region, later working as the head of a kindergarten.

From April 1934 to August 1935, Hlukh served in the Red Army. After demobilisation, he enrolled at the Kharkiv Law Institute, graduating in 1939. He then began working in the prosecutor's office of Ukraine and Kazakhstan, rising from district prosecutor to Prosecutor of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1939 to 1941, he served as the prosecutor of the Chervonozavodskyi District of Kharkiv.

A member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1940, Hlukh held various positions within the Soviet legal and Communist Party structures. From 1941 to 1943, he was assistant prosecutor of Aktobe Oblast in the Kazakh SSR, and later, the prosecutor of the city of Aktobe. In 1943, he became the head of the Personnel Department at the Prosecutor's Office of the Ukrainian SSR.

From 1943 to 1944, he worked as an instructor in the Personnel Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and from 1944 to 1947, as head of the Personnel Sector at the CPU Central Committee.

In 1947, Hlukh was appointed Deputy Prosecutor of the Ukrainian SSR. From January 1953 to March 1957, he served as Minister of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR, and from May 1957 to January 1963, he held the position of Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR.

He served as Prosecutor of the Ukrainian SSR for two decades, from February 1963 until his retirement in January 1983.^[3]

He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, as well as medals "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", "50 Years of the Soviet Militia", "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev", and honorary certificates from the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1963, 1982). In 1972, he was awarded the honorary title "Honoured Jurist of the Ukrainian SSR".^[2]

Hlukh died on 3 August 1984 in Kyiv.^[1]