Averky Aristov

Awerki Borisovich Aristov (Russian Аверкий Борисович Аристов; * 22 Oktoberjul / November 4 1903greg in Krasny Yar, Astrakhan Governorate, Russian Empire, today Oblast Astrakhan, Russia, .. † 11 July 1973 in Vienna) was a Soviet politician and diplomat.

Biography

Early years

Aristov, son of a fisherman, worked from 1912 to 1919 as a fisherman. In 1919 he became a member of the Komsomol in 1921 and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ). He participates in the establishment of the Russian Communist Youth League. In 1922 he was secretary of the county committee of the Komsomol of the government of Astrakhan. He studied from 1922 to 1925 in Astrakhan and Kazan. From 1925 to 1926 he served in the Red Army and was party secretary of a regiment. From 1927 on, he worked first in Astrakhan District Committee for propaganda and organization. 1928 to 1932 he studied again, now at the Polytechnic Institute in Leningrad, was a metallurgical engineer and he worked in the factory Centrolit in Leningrad. From 1934 he was a lecturer in scientific and pedagogical issues at the Industrial Institute in Leningrad, later in the Kirov Industrial Institute in Sverdlovsk.

Rise

In 1940, after the Stalinist purges itself Aristows ascent continued rapidly evolving: from 1940 to 1943 as secretary of the Communist Party Provincial Committee of Sverdlovsk, from 1943 to 1944 as secretary of the Communist Party Regional Committee Kemerovo, from 1944 to 1950 as First Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Krasnoyarsk and 1950-1952 first secretary of the Communist Party Regional Committee Chelyabinsk. From 1946 to 1962 he was a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

In the center of power

This was followed by his rise in the power center of the party. In 1952 he became a member of the CPSU Central Committee and from 1952 to 1953 he was secretary of the Central Committee and at the same time also a full member in the highest political body of the USSR, the Presidium ( Politburo in front ) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ). The Bureau was founded in 1952 by Stalin significantly increased from 12 to 24 members and again reduced to eight members after his death. This reduction also Aristov initially lost his membership in the Presidium.

1953 and 1955 he worked in the party leadership of the Khabarovsk kray. He was then on 12 July 1955 to May 4, 1960 again secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and from 1957 to 1961 again a full member of the Presidium. In this phase he broadly supported Nikita Khrushchev in his reformist and anti-Stalinist efforts. He had to lead negotiations in 1957 with the Communist Party leadership during the crisis in Czechoslovakia in Prague. In the Bureau he was otherwise responsible for agricultural issues.

Loss of power

In 1960, he lost his post as Central Committee secretary how it was to " focus " on his duties in the Central Committee for the Affairs of the Russian SFSR office. He lost this job, now fallen out of favor in 1961, the new Presidium member Gennady Voronov. It was the time in which Leonid Brezhnev more and more prevailed in the Bureau. The Aristov also imputed to deficiencies in agriculture and a general desire of the party leadership after personnel changes (Rules of 1960 for the renewal of the management ) led to his political disempowerment.

He was from February 1961 Ambassador to Poland and lost on the XXII. Party Congress of the CPSU in October 1961 finally his membership in the Presidium of the Central Committee.

In 1971, he was Ambassador to Austria, where he died in 1973 at the office.

He was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Honors

He received

• The Order of Lenin, three times
• The Order of the Red Banner of Labor, three times
• The Order of the Red Star