Nikolay Slyunkov

Nikolai Nikititch Sljunkow (Russian: Николай Никитич Слюньков ) ( born April 26, 1929) was a White Russian and Soviet economist and politician.

Life

Rise in Minsk

1950 was Sljunkow busy at large Minsk Tractor Factory, which he was Director General between 1960-1965 then. In 1954 he joined the Communist Party ( CPSU ). 1972-1974 he was then First Party Secretary of Minsk and 1974-1883 Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR Gosplan. From 1983 to 1987 he held the post of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus.

In the center of power

From 1983 to 1987 he was a member of the Political Bureau of the CPSU. In 1987 he was promoted to a full member in the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, namely for the period from 26 June 1987 until 14 July 1990. At the same time he was secretary of the Central Committee, in charge of economic issues and for affairs of the CMEA countries. 1990 but resigned at his own request on the XXVIII. Congress of the CPSU in July 1990 from his offices, but worked in the Presidential Council of the USSR - a kind of inner leadership circle of the President - with. Sljunkow since 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev assisted in his reforms (keywords glasnost and perestroika ) and developed in 1987 to, inter alia, with Vadim Medvedev and Alexander Yakovlev initial concepts. Gorbachev " appreciated his human qualities, his honesty, openness, and his enormous diligence. "