Pyotr Demichev
Pyotr Nilowitsch Demitschew (Russian Пётр Нилович Демичев; born December 21 1917jul / January 3 1918greg in Pessotschnja, now Kirov, Kaluga oblast, .. † 10 August 2010 in Moscow Oblast, Russia ) was a Soviet politician, Communist Party of Soviet Union ( CPSU ), longtime member of the Political Bureau of the CPSU, secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union, and first Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Life
Demitschew, who came from a simple peasant and working-class family, made 1937-1944 his military service in the Red Army and then began studying at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Moscow.
Early as 1945, however, he was head of a department and secretary of the district committee of the CPSU in Moscow before he was following 1950-1956 employee in the city government and the CPSU in Moscow. After working as a secretary of the CPSU in Moscow Oblast from 1956 to 1958, Demitschew became Director of General Administration of Ministers of the USSR. However, as early as 1959 he was appointed First Secretary of the CPSU in Moscow Oblast, before he became First Secretary of the CPSU from 1960 Moscow.
On 31 October 1961 he was not only a member of the Central Committee ( CC) of the CPSU, but also Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. He remained in this function until 16 December 1974, at the same time on November 16, 1964 candidate Bureau (since 1966 the Politburo ) of the Central Committee and held this office for almost 24 years until 30 September 1988.
On November 14, 1974 Pyotr Demitschew was appointed as the successor of the deceased on October 24, 1974 Ekaterina Furtseva Minister of Culture and belonged to the Council of Ministers of the USSR until 18 June 1986. Successor as Minister was then Vasily Zakharov. He was most recently on June 18, 1986 to October 1, 1988 First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and thus de facto First Vice - President of the USSR.
For his service in the Soviet Union, he has won several awards and received not only three times the Order of Lenin, but also the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.