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{{Short description|Soviet politician (1913–2008)}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
| name                = Mikhail Solomentsev
| image               = Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (3x4 cropped).jpg
| caption             = Solomentsev in 1972
| imagesize           = 
| order               = Chairman of the [[Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Party Control Committee]] of the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee]]
| term_start          = 15 June 1983
| term_end            = 30 September 1988
| predecessor         = [[Arvīds Pelše]]
| successor           = [[Boris Pugo]]
| order2              = [[List of leaders of the Russian SFSR#Heads of government|Chairman]] of the [[Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Council of Ministers – Government]] of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]]
| term_start2         = 28 July 1971
| term_end2           = 24 June 1983
| predecessor2        = [[Gennady Voronov]]
| successor2          = [[Vitaly Vorotnikov]]
| office3             = Full member of the [[26th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]], [[27th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th]] [[Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Politburo]]
| term_start3         = 26 December 1983
| term_end3           = 30 September 1988
| office4             = Member of the [[23rd Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]], [[24th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]] [[Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Secretariat]]
| term_start4         = 13 December 1966
| term_end4           = 23 November 1971
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1913|11|7|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Yeletsky Uyezd]], [[Oryol Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2008|2|15|1913|11|7|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Moscow]], [[Russia|Russian Federation]]
| nationality         = [[Soviet people|Soviet]], [[Russian people|Russian]]
| party               = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1940-1988)
| native_name         = {{nobold|Михаил Соломенцев}}
| native_name_lang    = ru
}}
'''Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev''' ({{langx|ru|Михаи́л Серге́евич Соло́менцев}}; {{OldStyleDate|7 November|1913|24 October}} – 15 February 2008) was a Soviet politician and statesman.

==Early life ==
He was born near [[Yelets]] and graduated from the [[Leningrad Technological Institute]] in 1940.

==Career==
Solomentsev was a leading [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]] functionary in [[Kazakhstan]] during 1962–1964 and was in charge of the [[Rostov-on-Don]] [[obkom]] from 1964–1966. He served as a secretary of the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] during the years 1966–1971.  Solomontsev was [[List of heads of government of Russia#Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic .28RSFSR.29|Chairman]] of the [[Government of the Russian SFSR|Council of Ministers]] of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian RSFR]] starting from 1971 and ending in 1983. He sat in the [[Politburo]] from 1983 until he was sacked by [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in 1988. In October 1987 he led a Commission of the Politburo to look into the “purge” trials of the 1930s. The commission also included KGB Chief [[Viktor Chebrikov]] and [[Alexander Yakovlev]]. Yakovlev subsequently took over the chairmanship of the Commission.<ref name="Rehab">{{cite journal |last1=Biggart |first1=John |date=1998 |title=The Rehabilitation of Bogdanov |url=https://www.academia.edu/50121899 |journal=Bogdanov and His Work. A Guide to the Published and Unpublished Works of Alexander A. Bogdanov (Malinovsky 1973—1928) |access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref>

==Decorations and awards==
* Twice [[Hero of Socialist Labour]] (1973 and 1983)
* Four [[Orders of Lenin]]
* Two [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]]
* [[Order of the Red Star]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*Martin McCauley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=__mNqjFLh5kC&q=dolgikh Who's Who in Russia Since 1900], Routledge, 1997, {{ISBN|0-415-13898-1}}; pp.&nbsp;194–195

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