Nuritdin Mukhitdinov

Nuritdin Akramowitsch Muchitdinow (Russian Нуритдин Акрамович Мухитдинов; * 6.jul / November 19 1917greg in Tashkent, .. † August 27, 2008 ibid ) was the Prime Minister of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and a member of the Politburo of the CPSU an Uzbek and Soviet politician.

Life

Rise

Muchitdinow came from a poor peasant family. He graduated from a cooperative pilot and worked in a consumer cooperative, visited a Trade and Economic Institute and participated in educational courses. From 1940 to 1945 he served in the Red Army. He joined in 1942 with the Communist Party ( CPSU ).

After the Second World War, he worked his way up in the Uzbek party organization. In 1950 he became First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of Tashkent. From 1951 to 1955 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( prime minister ) of the Uzbek SSR. Finally, he was then 1955-1957 First Secretary of the Uzbek party organization ( party leader ). He also served from 1952 to 1966 a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

In the center of power

From 1956 to 1957 he was a candidate of the Politburo of the CPSU. In 1957, he ascended to the highest political body of the USSR, he was together with Leonid Brezhnev, Ekaterina Furtseva and Marshal Zhukov full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) ( former name: Bureau ) and, in the period from 19 December 1957 to 31 October 1961. at the same time was also from 1957 to 1961 secretary of the Central Committee of the Party. This ascent he owed - like the others - his attachment to party leader Nikita Khrushchev, who so greatly strengthened his position in the party after the replacement of old Stalinists. Muchitdinow was the first Uzbek, who reached this high rank in the USSR. He represented the major Central Asian minority in the Presidium of the party.

Descent

As quickly as his star had risen as fast as he went out again. The confidant to Khrushchev - Alexei Kirichenko, Nikolai Belyaev, Nikolai Ignatov, Ekaterina Furtseva, Awerki Aristov, Pyotr Pospelov, Demyan Korottschenko - lost since 1960 with him their high positions in the Bureau or Secretariat. After XXII. Party Congress of 1961 Muchitdinow was unexpectedly re-elected to the presidency and resigned to the insignificant with the post of Deputy Chairman of the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives. However, he remained in the Central Committee ( CC). From 1968 to 1977 he was the Soviet ambassador to Syria. Later he held the position of deputy chairman of the Commerce and Industry Chamber of the USSR ( until 1987 ). Muchitdinow died in August 2008 after a long illness.