Vitaly Doguzhiyev

Soviet era politician

Виталий ДогужиевPremier of the Soviet Union
ActingIn office
19 August – 28 August 1991PresidentMikhail GorbachevPreceded byValentin PavlovSucceeded byIvan SilayevFirst Deputy Premier of the Soviet UnionIn office
15 January 1991 – 26 November 1991PremierValentin Pavlov
Ivan SilayevPreceded byVladilen NiktinSucceeded byPost abolished Personal detailsBorn(1935-12-25)25 December 1935
Yenakiyevo, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet UnionDied3 October 2016(2016-10-03) (aged 80)
Moscow, RussiaNationalitySoviet/RussianPolitical partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union

Vitaly Husseynovich Doguzhiyev (Russian: Виталий Хуссейнович Догужиев; 25 December 1935 – 3 October 2016) was a Soviet official appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers in 1991. Together with Vladimir Velichko, he was the last official on this position before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Life and career

He graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk University in 1958.

During the events of 19-22 August 1991, due to the illness of the USSR Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Doguzhiev was temporarily assigned the duties of the head of government.^[1]^[2] On 28 August the functions of the government of the Soviet Union were entrusted to the Committee on the Operational Management of the Soviet economy (COMSE) led by Ivan Silayev.