Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirtyukov (; September 13, 1909 – December 26, 2004) was a Soviet statesman. He became a member of the

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in 1940, a member of the Central Committee (1981–1990, candidate since 1976), a member of the Central Audit Commission (1971–1976), and a member of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union (1966–1989).

Biography

Smirtyukov was born into a peasant family, and after Lenin's death, joined the

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in response to the Lenin Enrolment. Between 1924 and 1927, he became the secretary of the village council, the secretary of the village cooperative, and the head of the club. In the spring of 1927, he graduated from high school. He graduated from the Faculty of Soviet Law of

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, where he studied in 1927–1931. In October 1930, he worked in the apparatus of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, where he started out as a senior assistant, consultant, head of sector, and Assistant Secretary of the Economic Council. He eventually became Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union and assistant to the authorized State Defense Committee for the Supply of the Red Army

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in 1941. Smirtyukov continued to climb his way up, becoming the Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in March 1946. Smirtyukov became the Deputy Manager of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union in 1953 and the managing director of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union in December 1964. Among the members of the Political Bureau, he was the only one who was sent the most confidential orders of the highest governing body in the country, and the secretaries and heads of departments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were asked to coordinate the most important plans and resolutions with him. From July 1989, he was a personal pensioner of national importance; in 1989–1990, he was an adviser to the manager of affairs of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Mikhail Shkabardnya.I Have Never Seen a Premier Weaker Than Ryzhkov
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(3rd section, 1st row).

Family

Wife – Smirtyukova Vera Fyodorovna (1908–1980), Doctor of Medical Sciences.

Awards and commemoration

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(September 12, 1979); *The Four

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(March 7, 1943; September 12, 1969; September 12, 1979; September 12, 1984); *

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(December 8, 1971); *

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(August 3, 1944); *Two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st Degree (November 6, 1945; March 11, 1985); *Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (April 23, 1942; September 12, 1959); *Medals; *A plaque in the Khobulzanov alley on the house where he lived.

Compositions

*Soviet State Administration Apparatus: Questions of the Organization and Activity of Central Bodies – 2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged – Moscow: Publishing House of Political Literature, 1984 – 287 Pages

References

Sources

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