Panas Petrovych Lyubchenko (Ukrainian: Панас Петрович Любченко; 14 January 1897 - 29 August 1937) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR (today's equivalent of prime-minister) from 1934 to 1937.Panas Lyubechenko was a member of the Ukrainian Central Council.In 1937, Lyubechenko shot his wife Maria Nikolaevna Krupenyk and then committed suicide after he was accused of treason by colluding with Ukrainianseparatists who wished to detach Ukraine from the Soviet Union.