Vasily Kuznetsov (politician)
Vasily Kuznetsov | |
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Василий Кузнецов | |
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union | |
Acting 10 March 1985 – 27 July 1985 | |
Preceded by | Konstantin Chernenko |
Succeeded by | Andrei Gromyko |
Acting 9 February 1984 – 11 April 1984 | |
Preceded by | Yuri Andropov |
Succeeded by | Konstantin Chernenko |
Acting 10 November 1982 – 16 June 1983 | |
Preceded by | Leonid Brezhnev |
Succeeded by | Yuri Andropov |
First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union | |
In office 7 October 1977 – 18 June 1986 | |
President | Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko Andrei Gromyko |
Preceded by | Position reestablished |
Succeeded by | Pyotr Demichev |
Personal details | |
Born | Vasily "Vasili" Vasilyevich Kuznetsov 13 February 1901 Sofilovka, Varnavinsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 5 June 1990 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 89)
Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery |
Nationality | Soviet |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1927–1986) |
Spouse | Zoya Igumnova (m. 1926; died 1988) |
Children | Era, Elena, Valery and Alexander |
Education | Carnegie Mellon University (1918–1921) Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (1921–1926) |
Central institution membership
Other political offices held
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Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Кузнецо́в; 13 February [O.S. 31 January] 1901 – 5 June 1990) was a Russian Soviet politician who acted as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1983 (after the death of Brezhnev), for a second time in 1984 (after the death of Andropov), and for a third time in 1985 (after the death of Chernenko). He was one of the oldest members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union was formally the highest state post. During the term of office, Kuznetsov was 81–82, 82–83, and 84 years old, respectively. He is the oldest head of the Soviet and Russian state in history (he was older than all three predecessors in this post).
Biography
Early life
Kuznetsov was born on February, 13 [O.S. 31 January] 1901, in the village of Sofilovka, Ovsyanovsky volost, Varnavinsky district, Kostroma province. Vasily's father, Vasily Mikhailov Kuznetsov, was a peasant, the head of a large, poor family. In 1915, He graduated from a rural school and immediately entered a pedagogical school in the village of Poretskoye, Chuvash Republic (then in Simbirsk Governorate). He studied at the school until 1919. With the beginning of the Civil War, he ended up in the ranks of the Red Army, until 1921. After the end of the war, he entered the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, which he graduated in 1926. In the same year, he went to the Donbas, got a job as a research engineer at the Makeevsky Metallurgical Plant. Soon he was appointed shift engineer, then deputy chief. In 1930, he was the head of a open-hearth shop.
Party career
He joined the
In 1977, Kuznetsov became the first deputy chairman of the Presidium of the USSR. On November 10, 1982, after the death of Brezhnev, Kuznetsov became the acting Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR until on June 16, 1983, he was succeeded by Yuri Andropov.
Andropov was the head of the USSR for a short time – on February 9, 1984, he died at the age of 69. Kuznetsov succeeded Andropov in February 9 to April 11, 1984, Chernenko takes the position. Kuznetsov headed the USSR on March 10, 1985 after the death of Chernenko. On July 27, 1985, Gromyko was chosen by the Central Committee and succeeded Kuznetsov.
He decided to retire in June 1986 and died of natural causes on June 5, 1990, at the age of 89. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife. For a long time, Kuznetsov retained the title of the longest-lived Head of State of the USSR, but in 2021 the record was broken by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Awards
Hero of Socialist Labor , twice (1971 & 1981)
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Order of Lenin, seven times (1943, 1951, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1981 & 1986) | |
Order of the October Revolution | |
Order of the Red Banner of Labor
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Order of the Red Star | |
Order of the Badge of Honor
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Stalin Prize, 2nd degree | |
Badge "50 Years in the CPSU" (1981) | |
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" | |
Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" | |
Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" | |
Jubilee medal "Forty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 | |
Medal "Veteran of Labor" |
References
- ^ "Кузнецов Василий Васильевич 1901 1990". personal-factor.ru. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Кузнецов Василий Васильевич 1901 1990". personal-factor.ru. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Кузнецов Василий Васильевич 1901 1990". personal-factor.ru. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- Nikolai A. Zenkovič, Samye zakrytye ljudi i.(in Russian) Encyclopedia of biographies, OLMA-Press, Moscow, 2002, ISBN 5-94850-035-7; pp. 298–292