# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/petro-shelest
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:59:39.897Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/petro-shelest"
name: "Petro Shelest"
slug: "petro-shelest"
description: "Petro Yukhymovych Shelest was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1965 until his removal in 1972. Ideologically a social moderate and a national communist, he oversaw a widespread liberalisation of Ukrainian society as part of the Khrushchev Thaw and Sixtier movement that led to increased visibility of the Ukrainian language and culture in public life. In 1972, Shelest was removed by Leonid Brezhnev and replaced with Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who undid much of Shelest's reforms and oversaw intensive Russification of Ukrainian society."
tagline: "Ukrainian politician (1908-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Petro_Shelest.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1908-02-01"
deathDate: "1996-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.95
  momentum:             0.0873083475298126
  historical:           18.50386533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%AE%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_%C5%A0elest"
    title: "Petro Šelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Schelest"
    title: "Petro Schelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Shelest"
    title: "Petro Shelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%C3%B3_Sh%C3%A9lest"
    title: "Petró Shélest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_%C5%A0elest"
    title: "Petro Šelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_%C5%A0elest"
    title: "Petro Šelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Chelest"
    title: "Petro Chelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%98"
    title: "פטרו שלסט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Shelest"
    title: "Petro Shelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Juchymovy%C4%8D_%C5%A0elest"
    title: "Petro Juchymovyč Šelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9A%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88"
    title: "ペトロ・シェレスト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotras_%C5%A0elestas"
    title: "Piotras Šelestas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Sjelest"
    title: "Petro Sjelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Sjelest"
    title: "Petro Sjelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Sze%C5%82est"
    title: "Petro Szełest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%9F%D1%91%D1%82%D1%80_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Шелест, Пётр Ефимович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_%C5%9Eelest"
    title: "Petro Şelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%AE%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Шелест Петро Юхимович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Yukhymovych_Shelest"
    title: "Petro Yukhymovych Shelest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Jel%C3%A4st"
    title: "Petro Jeläst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BD%BC%E5%BE%97%C2%B7%E8%B0%A2%E5%88%97%E6%96%AF%E7%89%B9"
    title: "彼得·谢列斯特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725435"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump