Mikhail Solomentsev
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Officeholder Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (Template:Langx; 7 November [O.S. 24 October] 1913 – 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 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 Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the 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.[1]
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
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- 1913 births
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- People from Yeletsky District
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- Heroes of Socialist Labour
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- Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology alumni