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Chairman Of The Council Of Ministers (USSR)
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union was the Premier of the Soviet Union, head of the government of the Soviet Union during the existence of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991. Powers The appointment of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union was carried out by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The powers of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union included the following: (With changes and additions made in 1981, 1985, 1989 and 1990) *Management of the activities of the government of the Soviet Union; *Selection of candidates for government members for approval by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union; *Submission of proposals to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on the appointment and dismissal of members of the government (with the approval of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union or the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union); *Organization of the work of the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Ministers Of The Soviet Union
The Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Совет министров СССР, r=Sovet Ministrov SSSR, p=sɐˈvʲet mʲɪˈnʲistrəf ˌɛsˌɛsˌɛsˈɛr), sometimes abbreviated as Sovmin or referred to as the Soviet of Ministers, was the ''de jure'' government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), comprising the main executive and administrative agency of the USSR from 1946 until 1991. During 1946 the Council of People's Commissars was reorganized as the Council of Ministers. Accordingly, the People's Commissariats were renamed as Ministries. The council issued declarations and instructions based on and in accordance with applicable laws, which had obligatory jurisdictional power in all republics of the Union. However, the most important decisions were made by joint declarations with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union (CPSU), which was '' de facto'' more powerful than the Council of Ministers. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panteleimon Ponomarenko
Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko (, ; ; 18 January 1984) was a Soviet Union, Soviet statesman and politician and one of the leaders of Belarusian resistance during World War II, Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus. He served as an administrator at various positions within the Government of the Soviet Union, Soviet government, including the leadership positions in Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian and Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakh SSRs. Early life Ponomarenko was born in khutor Shelkovskiy in Kuban Oblast, Kuban oblast to an ethnic Ukrainian peasant family coming from Kharkov Governorate, Kharkov governorate. Already at the age of twelve he entered as an apprentice in a workshop, then retrained as a blacksmith. In 1918 he was drafted into the Red Army, while according to other sources - he volunteered. He fought in the Russian Civil War and took part in the defense of Krasnodar, Yekaterinodar from units of the White Army. From 1919 he worked in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastas Mikoyan
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (; , ; ; – 21 October 1978) was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union. As a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1923 to 1976, he was the only Soviet politician who remained in power from Lenin, through the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, to his retirement under Brezhnev. His longevity inspired the popular Russian saying "from Ilyich eninto Ilyich rezhnevwithout heart attack and paralysis" (). An ethnic Armenian, Mikoyan joined the Bolsheviks in 1915, and following the October Revolution of 1917 participated in the Baku Commune. In the 1920s, he was the party's boss in the North Caucasus. Mikoyan was elected to the Politburo in 1935, served as foreign trade minister from 1926 to 1930 and again from 1938, and during World War II became a member of the State Defense Committee. After the war, Mikoyan b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vyacheslav Malyshev
Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Malyshev (; 3 December 1902 — 20 February 1957) was a Soviet politician and an engineer who was one of the senior program managers in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons during the 1940s and 1950s. He was instrumental in militarizing the Soviet space program while he also played a crucial role in Russian development of the nuclear submarines for the former Soviet Navy. Malyshev died in 1957, aged 54. Early life Malyshev was born on 16 December 1902 in Ust'-Sysol'sk, Russian Empire, the son of teachers Alexander Nikolaevich Malyshev and Elena Konstantinovna Popova. He has one brother, A. Aleksandrovich Malyshev. The family moved to Velikiye Luki in 1904 after Malyshev's father accepted another teaching job. Between 1918 and 1920, he worked as a secretary for Velikiye Luki's People's Court. In 1920, he began attending the Railway Technology School in town and working as a locksmith at a railway depot in Podmoskovye. After graduating in 1924, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Malenkov
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (8 January 1902 O.S. 26 December 1901">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 26 December 1901ref name=":6"> – 14 January 1988) was a Soviet politician who briefly led the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. After one week, Malenkov was forced to give up control of the party apparatus, but continued to serve as Premier of the Soviet Union. He then entered a power struggle with the party's First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev which culminated in Malenkov's removal from the premiership in 1955 as well as the Presidium in 1957. Malenkov served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and joined the Communist Party in 1920. From 1925, he served in the staff of the party's Organizational Bureau ( Orgburo), where he was entrusted with overseeing member records; this role led to his heavy involvement in facilitating Stalin's purges of the party in the 1930s. From 1939, Malenkov was a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Krutikov (politician)
Alexey Dmitrievich Krutikov (1902–1962) was a Soviet statesman and politician who served as Deputy People's Commissar (1940–1946) / Deputy Minister (1946–1948) for Foreign Trade in 1940-1948 and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1948-1949.Khlevnyuk, Oleg (2005). ''Politburo TsK VKP(b) i Sovet Ministrov SSSr, 1945-1953''. – Moscow: ROSSPEN. – p. 584 Early life Krutikov was born in Filyaevo village, Gryazovetsky Uyezd of Vologda Governorate in peasant family. In 1917–1921 he finished a telegraphy school and worked as telegraphist. In 1924 was drafted to the Red Army. Awards and decorations * Order of Lenin (twice) * Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" * Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" The Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" () was a World War II campaign medal of the Soviet Union awarded to military and civilians who had participated in the Battle of Moscow. History The Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazar Kaganovich
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (; – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, Kaganovich worked as a shoemaker and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1911. During and after the 1917 October Revolution, he held leading positions in Bolsheviks, Bolshevik organizations in Belarus and Russia, and helped consolidate Soviet rule in Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Turkestan. In 1922, Stalin placed Kaganovich in charge of an organizational department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party, assisting the former in consolidating his grip on the party. Kaganovich was appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1925, and a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Politburo and Stalin's deputy party secretary in 1930. In 1932–33, he helped enforce grain quotas in Ukraine which contributed to the Holodomor fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Yefremov (politician)
Aleksandr Illarionovich Yefremov (; 23 April 1904 – 23 November 1951) was a Soviet Union, Soviet statesman, party figure and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Mossoviet, Moscow City Council of Workers', Peasants' and Red Army Deputies (today's equivalent of mayor) from 3 November 1938 to 14 April 1939. Life and career Aleksandr Yefremov was born in Moscow in 1904 into the family of a factory worker. In 1916, he began to work as a mechanic helper, later on becoming a mechanic proper at a railway shop. In 1924, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In 1935, he graduated from the STANKIN and worked as a shop foreman, shop superintendent, and then finally as a director of a machine-tool factory named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze. In 1938–1939, Aleksandr Yefremov held the posts of a deputy chairman of the Moscow City Council and then chairman of the Moscow Oblast Executive Committee and chairman of the Moscow City Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov ( ; ), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet Military of the Soviet Union, military officer and politician during the Stalinism, Stalin era (1924–1953). He was one of the original five Marshal of the Soviet Union, Marshals of the Soviet Union, the second highest military rank of the Soviet Union (junior to the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union, which was a post only held by Joseph Stalin), and served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nominal List of heads of state of the Soviet Union, Soviet head of state, from 1953 to 1960. Born to a Russian worker's family in Ukraine, Voroshilov took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917 as an Old Bolshevik, early member of the Bolsheviks. He served with distinction at the Battle of Tsaritsyn, during which he became a close friend of Stalin. Voroshilov was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Voznesensky
Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky (, – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet politician and economic planner who oversaw the running of Gosplan (the USSR's State Planning Committee) during the German–Soviet War of 1941–1945. A protégé of Andrei Zhdanov, Voznesensky was appointed Deputy Premier in May 1940. Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2003, p.310. He became directly involved in the recovery of production associated with the evacuation of industry eastwards after the start of the war. His 1947 work ''The Economy of the USSR during World War II'' () records those years. Following the war, Voznesensky was persecuted during the 1949–1950 Leningrad affair. In a secret trial, he was found guilty of treason, sentenced to death and executed immediately. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union rehabilitated him in 1954. Voznesensky was a close associate of Alexei Kosygin and of Mikhail Rodionov. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ka, ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია} ''Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria'' ( – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War. An ethnic Georgian, Beria enlisted in the Cheka in 1920, and quickly rose through its ranks. He transferred to Communist Party work in the Caucasus in the 1930s, and in 1938 was appointed head of the NKVD by Stalin. His ascent marked the end of the Stalinist Great Purge carried out by Nikolai Yezhov, whom Beria purged. After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Beria organized the Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia, and after the occupation of the Baltic states and parts of Romania in 1940, he oversaw the deportations of hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
