Leonid Melnikov

Leonid Georgijewitsch Melnikov (Russian Леонид Георгиевич Мельников; * Maijul 18 / 31 May 1906greg in Degtjarewka, Ujesd Mglin, province Chernihiv, Russian Empire, .. † April 16, 1981 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician, Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in the Ukrainian SSR and the Kazakh SSR and candidate and member of the Presidium of the CPSU.

Life

Rise through the promotion of Stalin

Melnikov, who came from a poor peasant family, began the age of fourteen to work in a sugar factory.

First, he was secretary and finally Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Donetsk Oblast, before he became an organizer in the Department of Personnel Selection of the Central Committee (CC ) of the CPSU. Between 1938 and 1954 he was also a member ( deputy ) of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In October 1942 he was appointed First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in Karaganda Oblast in the Kazakh SSR, then takes over but in February 1944 the Office of the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Donetsk Oblast.

In July 1947 he is first secretary, then Second Secretary, and finally in December 1949 First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. He was leader of the largest regional division within the Soviet Union. Between 1950 and 1954 he was also a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

At the 19th Congress of the CPSU was in October 1952 he was elected member of the Politburo of the Central Committee and also a member of the Bureau, which later became the Politburo.

Power loss due to the de-Stalinization

After the death of his patron Stalin on 5 March 1953, however, the descent begins Melnikov: On March 6, 1953, he is degraded by the member of the Presidium of the CPSU to the candidate before he further three months later, on June 6, 1953 and its status as a candidate loses. On June 12, 1953 is finally carried out his replacement as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine by Alexei Kirichenko Illarionovich on charges of "gross distortion of the Leninist - Stalinist policy of the Soviet Union under the Korenisazija ".

Subsequently, he was first 1953-1955 Ambassador to Romania and then after April 1955 to May 1957 Minister of Coal Industry of the USSR. On the XX. Congress of the CPSU in February 1956, which ushered in the de-Stalinization, he was only elected candidates of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Melnikov was subsequently transferred in May 1957 in the Kazakh SSR, and was there first 1st Vice- Chairman of the Council of Ministers. From 1958 to 1962 he was again a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. After that, he was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR and there is also the Chairman of the State Planning Commission ( Gosgortekhnadzor ). The Office of the Chairman of the State Planning Commission subsequently had held from 1961 to February 1966.

Last Leonid Melnikov was from February 1966 until his death Chairman of the State Committee for the Supervision of Safety in Industry and Mining Ministers of the USSR. During this time he was again a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

After his death he was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Politicians (Soviet Union)
Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU
Soviet Ambassador
CPSU member
Born in 1906
Died in 1981
Man

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