Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev
Никита Хрущёв
Khrushchev in East Berlin during a visit to East Germany in 1963
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office September 14, 1953 – October 14, 1964
President	Kliment Voroshilov Leonid Brezhnev Anastas Mikoyan
Premier	Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin Himself
Preceded by	Joseph Stalin
Succeeded by	Leonid Brezhnev
Premier of the Soviet Union
In office March 27, 1958 – October 14, 1964
President	Kliment Voroshilov Leonid Brezhnev Anastas Mikoyan
First Deputies	Frol Kozlov Alexei Kosygin Dmitriy Ustinov Lazar Kaganovich Anastas Mikoyan
Preceded by	Nikolai Bulganin
Succeeded by	Alexei Kosygin
Personal details
Born	(1894-04-15)15 April 1894 Kalinovka, Dmitriyevsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	September 11, 1971(1971-09-11) (aged 77) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Spouse(s)	Yefrosinia Khrushcheva (1916–1919, died) Marusia Khrushcheva (1922, separated) Nina Khrushcheva (1923–1971, survived as widow)
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev^[1] (15 April 1894^[2] – 11 September 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. He ruled from 1953 to 1964 when Leonid Brezhnev, a Red Army Major General and President of the Soviet Union from 1960 to 1964 (during Khrushchev's own rule) came to power in 1964 after a bloodless palace coup against Khrushchev, just 11 years after Stalin died.

He supported the Soviet space program and was the leader when Yuri Gagarin flew into space and became the first man to leave Earth in April 1961. Khrushchev was also the leader who ordered the Berlin Wall to be built in the East Berlin half of the former Nazi capital city Berlin. The wall separated it from West Berlin in August 1961 until the end of the Cold War .

1. ↑ listen (help·info) Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв; IPA: [xruˈɕːʲof]
2. ↑ Tompson 1995, p. 2. Soviet era reports list his birth date as April 17 (April 5 old style) but recent discovery of his birth certificate has made biographers accept the April 15 date. harvnb error: no target: CITEREFTompson1995 (help)