 Vasyl Herasymenko

Vasyl Herasymenko () was a Soviet military leader from Ukraine who was nominally and temporarily appointed the People's Commissar of Defense of the Ukrainian SSR in 1944-45.Vasyl Herasymenko was born in a village of Velyka Burimka, Poltava Governorate (today part of Chornobai Raion, Cherkasy Oblast) on April 24, 1900 in a peasant family.