Shpilyak, Mika

Mika Shpilyak
Mika Shpilyak
	Mika Špiljak
	May 15, 1984 - May 1986
Predecessor	Josip Vrhovec
Successor	Stanko Stoichevich
	May 15, 1983 - May 15, 1984
Predecessor	Petar Stambolic
Successor	Veselin Dzhuranovich
	May 16, 1967 - May 18, 1969
The president	Josip Broz Tito
Predecessor	Petar Stambolic
Successor	Mitya Ribichich
	June 1963 - May 1967
Predecessor	Zvonko Brkich
Successor	Savka Dubchevich-Kuchar
	1949 - 1950
The president	Josip Broz Tito
Predecessor	Dragutin Saili
Successor	Pretty Rukavina
Birth	November 28, 1916 ; Odra village, Sisaka district, Austria-Hungary
Death	May 18, 2007 (90 years old); Zagreb , Croatia
Father	Dragutin Shpilyak
The consignment	Union of Communists of Yugoslavia
Military service
Rank	Colonel
Battles	National liberation struggle

Mika Špiljak ( Croatian Mika Špiljak , November 28, 1916 , Odra, Hungarian Croatia, Austria-Hungary - May 18, 2007 , Zagreb , Croatia ) - Yugoslav ( Croatian ) politician, chairman of the Presidium of the SFRY (1983-1984), chairman of the Union Executive Party SFRY (1967-1969).

In 1967, Shiplyak was appointed head of the Union Executive Council of Yugoslavia.

Content

1 Biography
2 Awards and titles
3 notes
4 Sources

Biography

Born in a poor family. He began his career in the shoe industry. He joined the revolutionary labor movement, participated in strikes and demonstrations.

Since 1935 - a member of the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia, and since 1938 - a member of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (UCC). In 1940 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the UCC, in the same year - Secretary of the Party Committee of the city of Buyer.

1945 - 1949 - mayor of Zagreb .

1963 - 1967 - Chairman of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Croatia .

1967 - 1969 - Chairman of the Union Executive Council of Yugoslavia.

1970 - 1980 - Chairman of the Council of the Union of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia.

1983 - 1984 - Member of the Presidium and Chairman of the Presidium of the SFRY .

1984 - 1986 - Secretary of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia. He opened the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo .

Awards and titles

People's Hero of Yugoslavia (1953).
He was awarded the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labor .
Honorary Citizen of Zagreb (1980) ^[1] .

Notes

↑ Počasni građanin Grada Zagreba: 1945-1990. (SFR Jugoslavija) (Croatian) (unavailable link) . // The official website of Zagreb. Date of treatment July 20, 2011. Archived on August 13, 2011.

Sources

Folk Heroes of Ugoslavia. - Beograd: Mladost, 1975.

[honorary-citizens-1] Počasni građanin Grada Zagreba: 1945-1990. (SFR Jugoslavija) (Croatian) (unavailable link) . // The official website of Zagreb. Date of treatment July 20, 2011. Archived on August 13, 2011.