Atypical communist Leonid Ivanchenko: Soviet career years

This article is devoted to the Soviet period of the biography of a prominent figure in the modern history of the Don, a well-known participant of the left flank of party life in Russia - Leonid Andreevich Ivanchenko (1942-2016). The hero of the publication in the 1980s-early 1990s became one of the leaders of the Rostov region: chairman of the Rostov City Executive Committee (1984-1986), secretary, second secretary of the Regional Committee (1986-1989), chairman of the Regional Executive Committee (1989-1990) and the Regional Council (1990-1991). Ivanchenko throughout his political path was forced to master new technologies of work in power in conditions of competitiveness, glasnost in the discussion of candidates, and publicity. He claimed the position of the First Secretary of the Rostov Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in the alternative elections (1990). And after losing, he tried to make the regional council a key regional center for political decision-making. In August 1991, due to the support of the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP), he was illegally resigned, which determined his future political path.