Dmitry Polyansky

First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet UnionIn office
2 October 1965 – 2 February 1973PremierAlexei KosyginPreceded byKirill MazurovSucceeded byNikolai TikhonovChairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSRIn office
31 March 1958 – 23 November 1962Preceded byFrol KozlovSucceeded byGennady VoronovFull Member of the 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th PolitburoIn office
4 May 1960 – 5 March 1976Candidate Member of the 20th PresidiumIn office
18 June 1958 – 4 May 1960 Personal detailsBorn
(1917-10-25)25 October 1917
Slovianoserbsk, Russian Empire
(now Ukraine)Died8 October 2001(2001-10-08) (aged 83)
Moscow, RussiaNationalitySoviet, UkrainianPolitical partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union

Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (Russian: Дми́трий Степа́нович Поля́нский; 7 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917 – 8 October 2001) was a Soviet statesman who was First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1973. From 1958 to 1962 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR, equivalent to a Premier in of one of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics that comprised the Soviet Union.^[1]

Polyansky was awarded four Orders of Lenin. His wife Galina died in 2005.

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