Vitaly Vorotnikov

Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikoff (Russian Виталий Иванович Воротников, scientific transliteration Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov; born January 20, 1926 in Voronezh, † February 20, 2012 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician, member of the Politburo of the CPSU and Prime Minister of the Russian SFSR ( RSFSR ).

Life

Education and work

Vorotnikoff completed after graduating from high school in Voronezh a college and he worked from 1942 in the locomotive factory Dzerzhinsky as an apprentice fitter and toolmaking. Due to the war, he worked temporarily in agriculture. In 1947 he joined after another college visit in the Department of Technology from for cutting cold metals. In 1948 he became head of an office in mechanical engineering. He studied until 1954 at the Faculty of aircraft at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute at the University today in Samara.

Policy

Vorotnikoff 1947 Member of the CPSU. Since 1951, he held various party functions, in 1955 secretary of the Party committee in a company and in 1961 secretary of the regional party committee. In 1963 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, 1967, he was appointed party leader in the Kuibyshev Oblast. During this time the automobile plant in Togliatti was born.

In 1970 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ). In 1971 he became first secretary of the regional party committee of Voronezh and 1975 First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. From 1979 to 1982 he was the Soviet ambassador in Cuba. In 1982 he became First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in the territory of Krasnodar (successor: Georgi Petrovich Razumovsky ).

In the center of power

Funded by Yuri Andropov took over Vorotnikoff of Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomenzew for the period 1983-1988 was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the RSFSR. At the same time he climbed in June 1983 as a candidate of the Politburo of the CPSU and in the same year and a full member in the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in the period from 26 December 1983 to July 14, 1990. 1985, he served as Prime Minister of the USSR in the conversation, but this was Nikolai Ryzhkov. He initially supported the reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in the USSR and then contradicted the end of 1988 some reform approaches. He spoke in 1989 against the creation of a separate Communist Party of the RSFSR. From 1988 to 1990 he was Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR - ie President of the RSFSR. In 1990 he joined - how many members of the Politburo - from his position back. Successor in the office of the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin was.

Vorotnikoff 1992 Member of the Presidium of the Council of the All-Russian organization of veterans.

Awards (selection)

Works

• It was so. From the diary of a member of the Politburo, 1995
• This generation, 1999
• Havana - Moscow. Memorable Years, 2001