Zinovie Serdiuk

Zinovie Timofeevici Serdiuk (15 November 1903 – 8 August 1982) was a Ukrainian–Moldavian politician of the Soviet period.

Biography
Zinovie Serdiuk (Зиновий Тимофеевич Сердюк) was born on November 15, 1903, in Harbuzynka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire. He died on August 8, 1982, in Moscow.

In 1935–1936 he was a deputy chief of political administration of the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route.

Zinovie Serdiuk was the First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party (February 8, 1954 – May 29, 1961). During his rule the main accent was pointed on the atheism, while in the economic sector the finishing of collectivization by formation of kolkhozes and sovkhozes everywhere in the Moldavian SSR. A number of industrial units were built.