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Nikolai Podgorny
Nikolai Podgorny | |
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Николай Подгорный | |
_(1).jpg) Podgorny in 1963 | |
| Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 9 December 1965 – 16 June 1977 | |
| Preceded by | Anastas Mikoyan |
| Succeeded by | Leonid Brezhnev |
| Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 14 October 1964 – 6 December 1965 | |
| Preceded by | Leonid Brezhnev |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Suslov |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
| In office 26 December 1957 – 2 July 1963 | |
| Preceded by | Alexei Kirichenko |
| Succeeded by | Petro Shelest |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 February [O.S. 5 February] 1903 Karlovka, Russian Empire (now Karlivka, Ukraine) |
| Died | 12 January 1983 (aged 79) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1930–1976) |
| Spouse | Natalya Nikolayevna Podgornaya (1908–1995) |
| Children | Natalia and Lesia |
| Profession | Mechanical engineer,[1] civil servant |
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Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny[a] (18 February [O.S. 5 February] 1903 – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977.
Podgorny was born to a Ukrainian working-class family in the city of Karlovka on 18 February 1903. He later graduated from a local worker's school in 1926 before completing his education at the Kiev Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931. In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union and climbed up the Soviet hierarchy after years of service to the country's centrally planned economy. By 1953, Podgorny became Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1953 before later serving as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1957 to 1963.
In October 1964, Podgorny participated in a coup replacing Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Thereafter, as a member of the collective leadership, Podgorny formed an unofficial Triumvirate (also known by its Russian name Troika) alongside Premier Alexei Kosygin and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. On 6 December 1965, he replaced Anastas Mikoyan as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. After Kosygin's standing was damaged in the wake of the Prague Spring crisis in 1968, Podgorny emerged as the second-most powerful figure in the country behind Brezhnev.[2] Thereafter, his influence over policy declined as Brezhnev consolidated his control over the regime. By June 1977, he was removed as Chairman of the Presidium as well as a member of the Politburo. Upon his removal from the Soviet leadership, Podgorny was forced to resign from active politics and sidelined in Soviet affairs until his death in 1983.
- ^ Law 1975, p. 214.
- ^ "170. Memorandum From the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon". history.state.gov. April 10, 1971. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
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