Mikhail Solomentsev

Soviet politician (1913–2008)
Михаил Соломенцев
Solomentsev in 1972
Chairman of the Party Control Committee of the Central CommitteeIn office
15 June 1983 – 30 September 1988Preceded byArvīds PelšeSucceeded byBoris PugoChairman of the Council of Ministers – Government of the Russian SFSRIn office
28 July 1971 – 24 June 1983Preceded byGennady VoronovSucceeded byVitaly VorotnikovFull member of the 26th, 27th PolitburoIn office
26 December 1983 – 30 September 1988Member of the 23rd, 24th SecretariatIn office
13 December 1966 – 23 November 1971 Personal detailsBorn(1913-11-07)7 November 1913
Yeletsky Uyezd, Oryol Governorate, Russian EmpireDied15 February 2008(2008-02-15) (aged 94)
Moscow, Russian FederationNationalitySoviet, RussianPolitical partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1940-1988)

Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Соло́менцев; 7 November [O.S. 24 October] 1913 – 15 February 2008) was a high-ranking 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

References

  1. ^ Biggart, John (1998). "The Rehabilitation of Bogdanov". Bogdanov and His Work. A Guide to the Published and Unpublished Works of Alexander A. Bogdanov (Malinovsky 1973—1928). Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  • Martin McCauley, Who's Who in Russia Since 1900, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0-415-13898-1; pp. 194–195
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