Crimean party administrator who helped protect Massandra
During the anti-alcohol campaign, he joined Shcherbitsky in intervening to protect Massandra and its enoteca.
Viktor Makarenko was a Soviet Ukrainian party administrator who rose from factory work to regional leadership. In Sevastopol and Crimea he coordinated industry, agriculture, and tourism while navigating tensions between central directives and local production and cultural institutions. During the 1980s anti-alcohol campaign, he joined Vladimir Shcherbitsky in protecting the Massandra winery and its enoteca. His memoir-based recollections illuminate how late Soviet regional governance could mediate, rather than simply transmit, central policy.
Career Timeline
- 1947Worker, district housing administration, Kryvyi Rih
- 1955Graduated Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute; joined Kryvorizhstal
- 1967–1969Second secretary, Kryvyi Rih City Committee
- 1969–1972Inspector, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
- 1972–1977First secretary, Sevastopol City Committee
- 1977–1987First secretary, Crimean Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
- 1982–1989Member, CPSU Central Committee
- 1987–2007Retirement and memoir writing