diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 7109ccbe851384..b8bac248d98867 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ Eric Groo
 Daniel Andrade Groppe
 Dag Gruneau
 Filip Gruszczyński
+Andrii Grynenko
 Grzegorz Grzywacz
 Thomas Guettler
 Yuyang Guo
diff --git a/Python/pystate.c b/Python/pystate.c
index 65c244e6f73617..ccb0092c42b3a4 100644
--- a/Python/pystate.c
+++ b/Python/pystate.c
@@ -743,6 +743,10 @@ _PyGILState_Fini(void)
 void
 _PyGILState_Reinit(void)
 {
+#ifdef WITH_THREAD
+    head_mutex = NULL;
+    HEAD_INIT();
+#endif
     PyThreadState *tstate = PyGILState_GetThisThreadState();
     PyThread_delete_key(autoTLSkey);
     if ((autoTLSkey = PyThread_create_key()) == -1)