Atypical communist Leonid Ivanchenko: post-Soviet years

The article is devoted to the post-Soviet period of the biography of Leonid Andreevich Ivanchenko (1942-2016), a well-known participant of the left-wing movement of modern Russian history, one of the key political figures of the Don in the 1990s and early 2000s. After resigning from the position of chairman of the regional council, he focused his attention on working in the structures of Russian parliaments - People’s Deputy (until 1993), deputy of the Federation Council (1993-1995) and the State Duma (1995-2007), chairman of the Committee on Federation Affairs and Regional Policy (1996-2002). On the Don, Ivanchenko participated in the restoration of the structures of the previously banned Communist Party, was the leader of the Rostov branch. He unsuccessfully participated in the elections for the post of head of the regional administration twice (1996, 2001). As one of the leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 2003-2004, he publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the state of affairs in the party. In the summer of 2004, he became one of the leaders of the “schismatic” movement in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the founders of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and after the failure to realize this project, he retired from politics. He died in Rostov-on-Don in 2016.