This article lists the chairmen of the Supreme Soviet (Verkhovna Rada in Ukrainian) of Ukrainian SSR (1938–1991) and the chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since 1991).
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Party | Election | First Deputy | Deputy | |
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1 | Mykhailo Burmystenko | 25 July 1938 | 9 September 1941 | Communist (Bolsheviks) | 1938 | |||
2 | Oleksandr Korniychuk | 1947 | 1953 | Communist (Bolsheviks) | 1947 | |||
3 | Pavlo Tychyna | 1953 | 1959 | Communist | 1953 | |||
4 | Oleksandr Korniychuk | 1959 | 1972 | Communist | 1959 | |||
5 | Mykhailo Bilyi | 1972 | 1980 | Communist | 1972 | |||
6 | Kostiantyn Sytnyk | 1980 | 1985 | Communist | 1980 | |||
7 | Platon Kostiuk | 1985 | 15 May 1990 | Communist | 1985 | |||
–[a] | Ivan Plyushch | 15 May 1990 | 4 June 1990 | Communist | 1990 | – | – | |
8 | Volodymyr Ivashko | 4 June 1990[1] | 9 July 1990 | Communist | Ivan Plyushch[b] | Volodymyr Hrynyov | ||
9 | Leonid Kravchuk | 23 July 1990[2] | 24 August 1991 | Communist |
According to the parliamentary regulations, a chair person of the Ukrainian parliament during his or her term at the position, officially votes in the parliament among the non-affiliated group.