Nikolai Ryzhkov

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Nikolai Ryzhkov

premier of Soviet Union

Also known as: Nikolay Ivanovich Ryzhkov

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In full:: Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov

Born:: September 28, 1929, Dzerzhynsk, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now Toretsk, Ukraine]

Died:: February 28, 2024, Moscow, Russia (aged 94)

Title / Office:: prime minister (1985-1991), Soviet Union

Political Affiliation:: Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Nikolai Ryzhkov (born September 28, 1929, Dzerzhynsk, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now Toretsk, Ukraine] —died February 28, 2024, Moscow, Russia) was the premier of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. During his tenure, the U.S.S.R. faced an economic crisis that contributed to the superpower’s collapse. Little is known with certainty of Ryzhkov’s early career. He seems to have begun his working career as a miner and then, by 1950, was a shift foreman at the Ordzhonikidze Uralmash plant (for heavy machinery) in the Urals, later rising to positions of shop superintendent and deputy manager. In 1956 he joined the Communist Party, ...(100 of 251 words)

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