Fyodor Kulakov

Fyodor Kulakov Davydovich (Russian Фёдор Давыдович Кулаков; born February 14, 1918 in Fitisch, today Rajon Lgow in the Kursk Oblast, † July 17, 1978 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

Life

Kulakov had grown up in a farming family in the area of ​​Kursk. He joined the CPSU in 1940 and completed a correspondence course as an agricultural business administration. From 1955 to 1959 he was first deputy minister of agriculture, and later Minister of cereal products of the Russian Soviet Republic. From 1960 to 1964 he was First Secretary of the Committee rural region of Stavropol. At that time, the young Mikhail Gorbachev as party secretary working there. 1964 Kulakov was replaced by Leonid Yefremov as First Secretary and appointed by Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow, from 1965 until his death in 1978 he was in charge of the agriculture secretary of the Central Committee. In April 1971, he rose to the highest political body of the USSR and became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ), at times he was considered a possible successor to Brezhnev. After his death, Kulakov was buried in an urn grave near the Kremlin wall, he was awarded among others with the Order of Lenin and the title Hero of Socialist Labor.

Kulakov was a patron of Gorbachev, 1978, his successor in the office of the Central Committee secretary for agriculture was.