Nikolai Ignatov

Nikolai Grigoryevich Ignatov (Russian Николай Григорьевич Игнатов, .. * 3 Maijul / May 16 1901greg on the Staniza Tischanskaja at Urjupinsk, Russian Empire (now Volgograd Oblast, Russia), † November 14, 1966 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

Biography

Rise

Ignatov was worker's son and worked in youth as a carpenter. During the Civil War, he fought in the Red Army. In 1924 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ). By 1932, he was then an employee of the Secret Service, the Cheka and the OGPU. He then successfully took part in a two -year course of the Central Committee ( CC) of the Communist Party of Marxism- Leninism. His political career was very changeable and uncertain. In the years after 1934, he held secretary post of the party in Leningrad from 1938 first Obkomsekretär in Kuibyshev, from 1940 in Oryol, from 1949 as First Secretary of the Krasnodar region, from 1953 first Obkomsekretär in Voronezh and 1955-1957 first Obkomsekretär in Gorki. From 1939 to 1941, he was merely a candidate of the Central Committee of the CPSU and in 1952 he was finally a member of the Central Committee.

In the center of power

From October 16th 1952 to March 5, 1953 and December 17, 1957 to May 4, 1960 Ignatow was as secretary of the CPSU Central Committee responsible for agricultural issues. From October 16th 1952 to March 15, 1953, he was in the scope of the expansion of the governing bodies of the party by Josef Stalin to the candidate of the Politburo ( 1952-1966 Bureau called ). From 1956 until June 29, 1957, he was again a candidate of the Politburo. He was promoted by Nikita Khrushchev and supported him in 1957 in an attempt to overthrow him as First Secretary of the CPSU. So he went for 1957 in the highest political body of the USSR, he became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in the period from 29 June 1957 to 31 October 1961. He supported Khrushchev's course at the Stalinization of CPSU ( 1959: demand of the party exclusion of Molotov, Kaganovich and Malenkov ). By 1960, however, began again his descent from the center of power. Why Khrushchev could not hold against Leonid Brezhnev and other party bigwigs his faithful helper or wanted is unclear. In 1959 he was for a few months and after 1962 again Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet only representative (ie Head of State) of the Russian SFSR ( RSFSR ).

In the government of the USSR

Ignatov was from 1952 to 1953 in the Council of Ministers of the USSR Minister in the cabinet of Stalin and then again in the cabinet of Khrushchev 1958-1962 Minister for the procurement of agricultural products and from 1960 to 1962 also Deputy Prime Minister.

Honors

Ignatov received the Order of Hero of Socialist Labor. After his death, his urn at the Kremlin wall in Moscow was buried.