Igor Bugayev (; 26 February 1933 – 22 November 2021) was a Soviet-Russian politician. He served as First Secretary of the

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Committee of the

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from 1975 to 1977.

Biography

Born in 1933 in

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. Member of the

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. He studied at the Faculty of

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, in the 4th year due to reduction in places he was transferred to the 2nd year of the Faculty of

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, he graduated in 1958. 1958—1968 head of the department of working youth, deputy editor, editor-in-chief of the

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newspaper (during his leadership, the circulation reached 220 thousand copies). 1968—1975 assistant to the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU

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, head of the department of culture of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU. 1975—1977 First Secretary of the Krasnopresnenskij District Committee of the CPSU. 1977—1985 head of the department of organizational and party work of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU. 1985—1987 Deputy Chairman of the

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of the

City Council. 1987—2001 Chairman of the Committee for Culture of the city of

. Since 2001, he has been an adviser to the president of the ANO "Editorial office of the

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". Delegate of the XXV Congress of the CPSU. Honored Worker of Culture of the

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(06/10/1993). Awarded the

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(06/13/1996) and medals. Died November 22, 2021. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

References

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