Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko (Ukrainian: Григорій Федорович Гринько; November 30 [O.S.

He served as finance minister of the Soviet Union in Moscow, from 1930 to 1937, replacing Nikolai Bryukhanov.

From December 1914 to November 1917, he was a junior officer of the Ekaterinoslav Grenadier Regiment on the Western Front.

From December 1919 to February 1920, he was a member of the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee in Serpukhov, Kursk, and Kharkiv.

Hrynko's activities at the head of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR turned out to be reformist.

At one of the first meetings of the Soviet People's Committee of the USSR on February 24, 1920, Hrynko proposed to honor the memory of Taras Shevchenko by declaring March 11 a "workers' holiday " and allocating 1 million rubles.

The conflicting statements of the People's Commissar of Education of the Ukrainian SSR regarding the prospects for the development of Ukrainian culture, his desire to please the Russian Bolsheviks, and his insistence on his own views in the field of education, testified to the difficult political situation in Ukraine in 1920, which was at the end of the civil war.

In July 1937, Hrynko signed financial documents on the material and technical support of collective farms in the Donetsk region, which turned out to be the last in his career as the People's Commissar of the USSR.

On August 25, 1937, Chubar reported to Stalin and Molotov that the previous leadership had led the work of the People's Commissariat to complete "collapse."

On August 17, 1937, Hrynko was arrested in the case of the so-called "anti-Soviet right-wing Trotskyist bloc".

He was allegedly forced to publicly confess to his "nefarious" activities during the period of Ukrainization at Trial of the Twenty One with Christian Rakovsky and nineteen other members of the so-called Right Opposition.