Mikhail Zimyanin

Mikhail Vasilyevich Simjanin (Russian: Михаил Васильевич Зимянин, English transcription: Mikhail Zimyanin; born November 21, 1914 in Vitebsk; † 3 May 1995 Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and ambassador.

Biography

Simjanin came from a working class family. He worked among others 1929 in a railway repair shop. From 1936 to 1938 he was instructor in a school and from 1936 to 1938 he served in the Red Army. In 1939 he became a member of the CPSU. From 1939 to 1946 he was secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in the Byelorussian SSR, from 1940 First Secretary. During the German occupation he built the Komsomol underground and worked from 1942 with the partisans. In 1946 he was appointed Minister of Education of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic ( BSSR ) and 1947 Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus. From 1952 to 1956 and from 1966 he was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

From 1956 to 1958 he was ambassador to the Soviet Union and North Vietnam from 1960 to 1965 in Czechoslovakia. In 1965, he was Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR and soon after he was until 1976 chief editor of Pravda and 1966-1976 Chairman of the Union of Soviet journalists.

On March 5, 1976, he was until 1987 at the instigation of Konstantin Chernenko Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was responsible with Suslov for ideological issues, as well as for science, education, culture and media. The new Secretary General Michael Gorbachev replaced him in 1986 by his confidant Yakovlev.

Awards

• Hero of Socialist Labor
• Order of Lenin, twice
• Order of the Great Patriotic War

Swell

• Mikhail Gorbachev: memories. Settlers -Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88680-524-7.

• Soviet Ambassador
• Politicians (Soviet Union)
• CPSU member
• Carrier of the Order of Lenin
• Hero of Socialist Labor
• Russian
• Soviet citizens
• Born in 1914
• Died in 1995
• Man
• Komsomol functionary