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- Born
- 1929-09-28
- Died
- 2024-02-28
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Desi͡a︡tʹ let velikikh potri͡a︡seniĭ
- Guidelines for the economic and social development of the USSR for 1986-1990 and for the period ending in 2000
- I͡A︡ iz partii po imeni "Rossii͡a︡"
- I͡U︡goslavskai͡a︡ Golgofa
- Ob osnovnykh napravlenii͡a︡kh ėkonomicheskogo i sot͡s︡ialʹnogo razvitii͡a︡ SSSR na 1986-1990 gody i na period do 2000 goda
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- President
- Andrei Gromyko , Mikhail Gorbachev
- First deputies
- See list Ivan Arkhipov Heydar Aliyev Nikolai Talyzin Vsevolod Murakhovsky Yuri Maslyukov Lev Voronin Vladilen Nikitin
- Preceded by
- Nikolai Tikhonov
- Succeeded by
- Valentin Pavlov , (as Prime Minister)
- Born
- Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov , ( 1929-09-28 ) 28 September 1929, Shcherbynivka , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
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Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov (Russian: Николай Иванович Рыжков; Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Рижков; 28 September 1929 – 28 February 2024) was a Russian politician. He served as the last chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and was succeeded by Valentin Pavlov as prime minister. The same year, he lost his seat on the Presidential Council, going on to become Boris Yeltsin's leading opponent in the 1991 presidential election of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He was the last surviving premier of the Soviet Union following the death of Ivan Silayev on 8 February 2023.
Ryzhkov was born in the city of Shcherbynivka, Ukrainian SSR (now Toretsk) in 1929. After graduating in 1959, he worked first in local industry before being moved into government in the 1970s, working his way up through the hierarchy of Soviet industrial ministries. He was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee in 1979. Following Nikolai Tikhonov's resignation as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Ryzhkov was voted into office in his place. During his tenure he supported Mikhail Gorbachev's 1980s reform of the Soviet economy.
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