Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko

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Kirilenko's tombstone in the Troyekurovo cemetery in Moscow

Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko ( Russian Андрей Павлович Кириленко * August 26 . Jul / 8. September  1906 greg. In Alekseevka ; † 12. May 1990 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and longtime member of the Politburo of the CPSU.

biography

Training and work

Kirilenko was the son of a craftsman. He attended a rural school and learned to be an electrician. From 1925 to 1929 he worked in Voronezh Oblast and in a mine in the Donets Basin . He joined the Komsomol , the party's youth organization , in 1929 and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1931 . From the 1930s to 1936 he studied aircraft construction at the Rybinsk Aviation Technology Institute . Kirilenko worked from 1936 to 1938 as an aircraft engineer in an aircraft factory in Zaporizhia .

Ascent

His steep rise as a functionary led through the following stations: 1938 second secretary in Voroshilov, 1939 to 1941 he was Rajkom secretary, 1942 to 1943 member of the military committee of the 18th Army on the southern front, 1943/44 at an aircraft factory in Moscow, 1944 to 1947 second Oblast secretary in the Zaporizhia Oblast ( Brezhnev was first observer secretary here in 1946/47), then from 1947 to 1950 first observer secretary of the Oblast Nikolayev and finally from 1955 to 1962 first observer secretary of the Sverdlovsk Oblast .

He was strongly promoted by Khrushchev during his time in the Ukraine , and so his rise to the party's centers of power followed: from 1956 a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPSU.

At the center of power

From 1957 to 1962 Kirilenko was a candidate for the party's Politburo and then - surprisingly for some - from April 25, 1962 to November 22, 1982, a full member of the highest political body in the USSR, the Politburo (called the Presidium from 1952 to 1966) of the Communist Party the Soviet Union (CPSU). From 1962 to 1966 he was - like the Politburo member Voronov - also First Deputy Chairman of the Office of the Central Committee for the Russian SFSR . From 1966 to 1982 he worked in the party's control center as a secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU .

In the Politburo he was a. a. responsible for mechanical engineering and industrial matters. He supported Khrushchev in his anti-Stalinist policies and he increasingly strengthened (1963) his position against Voronov, a competitor in the Politburo.

In the power struggle of 1964, in which Khrushchev lost his office as First Secretary of the Politburo and Brezhnev became his successor, the positions of other Politburo members such as Suslov , Podgorny and Kosygin had strengthened. Kirilenko had to adapt, but kept his position in the Politburo and, in close cooperation with Brezhnev, became one of the most powerful in an otherwise unchangeable leadership in the USSR. Due to age and illness, he resigned from his political offices in 1982.

Honors

Kirilenko received the order and title Hero of Socialist Labor (2 ×), the Order of Lenin (6 ×) and the Order of the October Revolution .

Works

  • The October Revolution lives in the deeds of the party and the people. APN Publishing House, Moscow 1973.

literature

  • Michel Tatu: Power and Powerlessness in the Kremlin. From Khrushchev to collective leadership. Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin 1968.
  • Merle Fainsod : How Russia is governed. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1965.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev : Memories. Siedler-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88680-524-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kirilenko, Andrei Pavlovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кириленко, Андрей Павлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet politician and long-time member of the Politburo of the CPSU
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexejewka (Belgorod)
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1990
Place of death Moscow