Nikolai Ryzhkov

Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov (Russian Николай Иванович Рыжков, scientific transliteration Nikolai Ivanovich Ryžkov; born September 28, 1929 in Dylijiwka, today county of Dserschynsk ) is a Russian politician and served from 1985 to 1991 during the time of the Secretary Gorbachev Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.

Life

Ryzhkov increased by the welder on a factory in Sverdlovsk chief engineer and head of a railway department and was mine director. In addition, he attended the Polytechnic Engineering Institute of the Urals in Sverdlovsk in 1959 and received his diploma. After that, he was Deputy Director and from 1965 to 1970 chief engineer of the Ultramachsawod in Sverdlovsk, 1970-1971 and 1971-1975 Director General of Uralmaschkombinats for heavy machinery.

The CPSU, he joined in 1956. In 1974 he was elected to the Soviet Union of the Supreme Soviet, and received the office of the Commission for Economic Planning and Budget Secretary. From 1975 he was also deputy minister for heavy and transport machine building and in 1979 First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission, Gosplan. 1981 - sponsored by Andropov - he was, without having been previously a candidate member of the Central Committee (CC ) of the CPSU from 1982 to 1985 and Secretary and Head of the Economic Department of the Central Committee and from 1985 to 1991 Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. From April 1985 to 1990 he was under Mikhail Gorbachev a full member in the highest political body, has been appointed Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and from 27 September 1985 as successor of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

He was more of a technocrat without a strong political profile. But he supported Gorbachev in his attempt to decentralize planning to introduce new forms of economy and new technologies.

On the other hand, he represented only very cautious introduction of perestroika and the new market mechanisms. He was expelled from the Politburo in 1990 and replaced in 1991 as Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov through. In the first Russian presidential elections, he ran unsuccessfully.

After the end of the Soviet Union Ryzhkov was elected in December 1993 in the Duma and 1996 Chairman of the left Patriotic Russian People's Party.

Awards

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Order of Lenin (x2), Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Red Banner of Labor (2x), Patriotic Order of Merit, the USSR State Prize for 1969 and 1979

Works

  • XXVII. Congress of the CPSU - About the main directions of economic and social development of the USSR from 1986 to 1990 and for the period until 2000 Rapporteur:. Ryshkow NI. Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1986.
  • Stay NATO crimes go unpunished? Conversation with the Russian politician Nikolai Ryshkow. ( in: Young World, August 4, 1998)
  • " ... I refuse to appear ." Opinion of Milosevic to the Hague witnesses Nikolai Ryshkow breach of the law. ( in: Young World, September 9, 2004)
  • Nikolai Ryzhkov, the star witness. EKSMO Publishers, Moscow, 2010 ( Russian edition ). The German -language translation of some passages of the book was published by Willi wannabes in two newspaper articles: Under torments died. From the book "The witness " the last Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. ( in: Young World, March 9, 2011)
  • Gorbachev celebrates in London. For the foreign policy of the former Soviet Communist Party Secretary-General. ( in: our time, March 11, 2011)
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