Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk was a Soviet and Ukrainian playwright, literary critic and state official.

The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR was the supreme soviet and the highest organ of state power of Ukraine when it was known as the Ukrainian SSR, one of the union republics of the Soviet Union. The Supreme Soviet was the sole branch of government in Ukraine, and per the principle of unified power, all state organs were subservient to it. It was established in 1937 replacing the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets.