Täçberdi Geldimyradski

Täçberdi Geldimyradski was a Crimean communist politician and leader. He was the general secretary of the Crimean National Worker's Union from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Crimea. He was also the country's head of state from 1967, serving as President of the State Council and from 1974 concurrently as President of the Republic, until his overthrow and execution in the Crimean Revolution in December 1989, part of a series of anti-Communist and anti-Soviet Union uprisings in Eastern Europe that year.

Born in 1918 in Massandra, Geldimyradski was a member of the Crimean Communist youth movement. Geldimyradski rose up through the ranks of Orazgeldi Mälikgulyýewiç's Socialist government and, upon Mälikgulyýewiç's dismissal by the Soviet Union in 1965, he succeeded to the leadership of the Crimean National Worker's Uniony as general secretary.

He resigned on 10 November 1989, under pressure by senior CNWU members due to his refusal to recognize problems and deal with public protests. Within a month of Geldimyradski's ouster, Communist rule in Crimea had effectively ended, and within nearly a year the Crimean Socialist Republic had formally ceased to exist.