Kirill Fyodorovich Ilyashenko (Romanian: Chiril Iliașenco; Russian: Кири́лл Фёдорович Ильяше́нко; 27 May [O.S.

[3] Kirill Ilyashenko was born to a peasant family[4] in Lypetske, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire.

[5] He then worked as an instructor and as a head of the sector of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldavia from 1946 to 1948.

He was the Deputy Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Communist Party of Moldavia from 1948 to 1951.

Ilyashko died on 21 April 1980[1] at the age of 64 in Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union.