Simonenko Peter Nikolaevich: biography and photo. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU)

Petro Symonenko is one of those politicians that Ukraine is now trying to erase from his life, although he has spent more than 20 years in the ranks of state administrators. He has vast experience, but his political views are not shared by the current "top" of this country.

Simonenko is a member of the Verkhovna Rada of several convocations, a "chronic" presidential candidate. The permanent leader of the Communists at the moment is considered disgraced. His house was burnt, his security interests are interested in him, and you will not see any more at the official events of the impressive Simonenko ...

Childhood and youth policy

Simonenko Pyotr Nikolayevich was born on August 1, 1952 in the city of Stalino of the Ukrainian SSR. Today it is Donetsk. His parents were visitors from the Zaporozhye region. My father worked as a tractor driver and my mother as a hospital nurse. The family was very simple, lived modestly.

From early childhood the boy had to think about how difficult it is to get a piece of bread. He looked at the hard work of his parents, and he himself tried to help. For example, young Peter had a swimming license, participated in competitions, for which he received food stamps. In general, sports occupied an important place in his life. In addition to swimming, he was fond of boxing. In the latter sport he achieved quite good successes, and if he continued to engage in boxing, then perhaps today we knew about him as an outstanding athlete, not politics.

But the profession after school Peter Simonenko, whose biography began in the Donbass, has chosen the traditional for the region and has nothing to do with the sports sphere. The young man entered the Donetsk Polytechnic University as a mining engineer-electromechanic. In 1974, Simonenko graduated with honors from this institute.

Start of work

However, he did not have to work long in the specialty. Only a year the newly-made engineer worked as a designer in Donetsk design institute "Dongiprouglemash". He settled there immediately after graduation - in 1974, and left in 1975.

Sixteen years later, Simonenko once again tried to realize himself in the industrial sector, replacing the head of the corporation Ukruglemash. But still the main field of activity for him was public work, and then - a big policy.

First political tests

Active political life Simonenko Peter Nikolaevich begins in 1975 as an instructor of the Donetsk Municipal Committee of LKSMU. Then he becomes the head of the department of this structure, and a little later - the second secretary.

Having served the first secretary of the regional committee of the Young Communist League and stayed for 6 years (from 1982 to 1988), a young and ambitious figure moved to Mariupol, where he became secretary of the local committee of the Communist Party. But he does not stay here for long. A year later he was appointed secretary of the ideological work of the Donetsk regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Seeing in the management sphere for himself great prospects, Simonenko entered and graduated from the Kiev Institute of Political Science. Now to the professional political scientist nothing prevented to break even higher.

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party: career rise

But then exactly the year 1991 burst. The Union collapsed, and the activities of the CPSU, as well as the CPU, were banned. The property of the cells was declared a national property, and the structures were dissolved.

A communist with many years of experience, Simonenko Pyotr Nikolaevich could not reconcile himself to this state of affairs. He actively joined the movement to restore the good name and rights of the CPU, leading an appropriate initiative group, which, of course, was informal. The organization included part of the former secretaries of some regional committees, several deputies of the Rada and industrialists.

Simonenko again became the secretary of the Donetsk regional committee, and the group's activity was so powerful that it even managed to hold an "underground" congress of all-Ukrainian communists. Everything happened in complete secrecy. More than 300 delegates from all over the country took part in the conference.

In 1993, the efforts of the activists were crowned with success. On May 14, the Verkhovna Rada decided that the Communist Party of Ukraine has the right to live and create its own organizations. About a month later, the main fighter for the legitimacy of the party was elected its first secretary.

Deputy debut

Such a high position in the party, which continued to remain in Ukraine a rather influential force, simply obliged the son of a tractor driver and a nurse to go further. And he went. And in March 1994, Pyotr Nikolaevich goes to the Verkhovna Rada as a deputy. In addition to Simonenko, the Communist Party of Ukraine was represented there by almost a hundred more people's deputies, and this was a very good result.

The Communists formed a faction, and, naturally, they led a brilliant speaker and a very active man, Pyotr Nikolayevich. He was also a member of the committee dealing with issues of spirituality and culture.

As a deputy of this convocation, Simonenko distinguished himself by a zealous struggle against the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and the support of his successor, Leonid Kuchma. He also opposed the Constitution adopted in 1996.

The second term on the post of deputy of parliament

The next elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Communists again had a success. They managed to form the largest parliamentary faction of 119 people. It has traditionally been headed by Simonenko Pyotr Nikolaevich.

This time, he concentrated his parliamentary efforts not on culture and spirituality, but on legal reform in the country, having entered the relevant committee. Twice an ambitious Communist tried to take the place of the Speaker of the Rada, but both times he did not have only five votes for it.

"Chronic" deputy

After the end of the Verkhovna Rada of the third convocation, Simonenko again runs for her deputies. And successfully passes. And this "history" is repeated again and again. The country's main communist did not leave the walls of the parliament from 1994 to 2014, until the onset of the crisis in Ukraine.

His political power was gaining less and less votes every time, but among the past in the Parliament was always Peter Simonenko. Ukraine is accustomed to this. He continued to be a great speaker, speaking fiery speeches from the parliamentary rostrum, and conquered hearts with an impressive appearance, flickering almost every day on TV screens.

During the "Orange Revolution" he supported President Kuchma, and then fought against Viktor Yushchenko. Its authorship belongs to the draft Constitution, where Ukraine is declared a parliamentary republic, that is, the post of president is liquidated. However, this project was not destined to be realized.

As the Communists in the parliament played an ever lesser role, they were forced to unite with someone. The most long-term and productive union among the comrades of Simonenko turned out with the Party of Regions. The latter now also ceased to exist.

Presidential epic

In 1999, Ukrainian citizen Petro Symonenko made his first attempt to occupy the country's main post and nominated his candidacy for the presidency. The campaign brought a resounding success to the Communist. He scored 22.24 percent of the vote and went into the second round, but eventually lost the fight to Leonid Kuchma, behind him by almost 20%.

But the dream to break out into the paramount political leaders of Ukraine does not leave Petro Nikolayevich. And in the next presidential race (2004) he again takes part. Attempt number two turned out to be much less successful. Only 4.97% of voters cast their votes to the "steering" Communist Party.

And then Simonenko rolled down the slope. In the 2010 elections, he received 3.53%, and as a result of the early election campaign in 2014 - only 1.53%. However, to participate in the election in 2014, Peter Nikolayevich changed his mind after some time after registration. But it was too late to withdraw the nomination, and he had to go this way to the end.

The Ukrainian crisis and Simonenko

One of the victims of the "fire" that swept the country in late 2013 was Petro Symonenko. The situation in Ukraine was growing every day more and more, and the Communists opposed Maidan, as they once opposed the "orange".

The support of President Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Regions turned out to be fatal for them and seems to have closed the way for high state posts for a long time. Ukraine is now investigating the facts of the anti-state activities of the Communist Party, and the permanent leader of the "Reds" was forced to leave the country. His house was burned by rebels, and the SBU threatens to bring Simonenko to justice, accusing him of separatism.

The ideological pillars of Simonenko

During many years of his state activity, Pyotr Simonenko proved to be a very consistent and consistent politician. He always adhered to his ideals and never refused the words spoken earlier.

He traditionally advocated the nationalization of strategically important facilities of the country, for free medicine, for Russian as the second state, for the non-aligned status of Ukraine, etc. He did not believe in the deliberate famine of 32-33 years of the 20th century and in the evil intentions of Stalin who resettled Crimean Tatars to the north. He condemned Shukhevych and other nationalists and did not perceive the Ukrainian state flag, which, according to him, some Ukrainians met in their time fascists.

Personal life of Peter Nikolaevich

In 1974, a very young Peter Simonenko married his former classmate Svetlana. In this marriage two sons were born - Andrew and Constantine.

In 2009, the family disintegrated. 57-year-old Petr Nikolaevich fell in love with a 32-year-old journalist Oksana Vashchuk and married her. The new wife also presented Simonenko with two children - a daughter of Marya in 2009 born and son of Ivan, who was born in 2010. In addition, the politician has grandchildren - Vladimir and Elizabeth.

Simonenko claims that he is happy in his second marriage. This well-known citizen of Ukraine continues to be a prominent man and to carry on an active activity, though already outside his native country or, at least, "underground".

Whether Peter Nikolayevich can return to his country with his head held high, time will tell. At the same time, the road to it is closed. The same applies to all his colleagues who consider themselves to be Communists and are not afraid to speak about it loudly, since the details of the party in Ukraine are prohibited. Perhaps, after some time in the country will come to power more loyal to the Communists political forces, then the current situation can change.