Andrei Kirilenko (politician)

Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko (Russian: Андрей Павлович Кириленко; * 26 Augustjul / September 8 1906greg in Alekseevka, .. † May 12, 1990 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and long-time member of the Politburo of the CPSU.

Biography

Education and work

Kirilenko was the son of a craftsman. He attended a rural school and learned the profession of an electrician. From 1925 to 1929 he worked in the Voronezh Oblast and in a mine in the Donets Basin. He joined in 1929 the Komsomol, the youth wing of the party and in 1931 the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ). In the 1930s to 1936, he studied aircraft at Rybinsk Aviation Technology Institute. Kirilenko was from 1936 to 1938 worked as an aircraft engineer in an aircraft plant in Zaporizhia.

Rise

Its steep climb as a functionary led over the following stations: 1938 Second Secretary in Voroshilov, from 1939 to 1941 he was Rajkomsekretär, 1942-1943 Member of the Military Committee of the 18th Army on the southern front, 1943/44, at an aircraft factory in Moscow, 1944-1947 Second Obkomsekretär in the Zaporizhia Oblast ( Brezhnev was here 1946/47, first Obkomsekretär ), from 1947 to 1950 then the first Obkomsekretär Nikolayev Oblast and finally from 1955 to 1962 first Obkomsekretär Sverdlovsk Oblast.

He was greatly encouraged in his time already in Ukraine by Khrushchev, and so its rise was followed in the power centers of the Party: From 1956 member of the Central Committee (CC ) of the CPSU.

In the center of power

From 1957 to 1962 was Kirilenko member of the Political Bureau of the party and then - surprising for some - April 25, 1962 to November 22, 1982 a full member in the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo ( called 1952-1966 Bureau ) of the Communist Party the Soviet Union ( CPSU ). From 1962 to 1966, he was - as Politburo member Voronov - including First Deputy Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian SFSR. From 1966 to 1982 he participated in the control center of the party, the function of a secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU was.

In the Politburo he was, inter alia, responsible for the engineering and industrial concerns. He supported Khrushchev in his anti-Stalinist politics and he strengthened (1963 ) to increase its position against Voronov, a competitor in the Politburo.

In the power struggle of 1964, in which Khrushchev lost his position as First Secretary of the Politburo and Brezhnev became his successor, the positions of other Politburo members as Suslov, Kosygin and Podgorny had strengthened. Kirilenko had to adapt, however, retained its function in the Politburo and was developed in close cooperation with one of the most powerful in a Brezhnev but otherwise no change capable leadership of the USSR. Age and due to illness he retired in 1982 from his political posts from.

Honors

Kirilenko was awarded the Order and title of Hero of Socialist Labor (2x), the Order of Lenin ( 6x) and the Order of the October Revolution.

Works

• The October Revolution living in the acts of the party and the people. APN Publishing House, Moscow 1973.