Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov

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Fyodor Dawydowitsch Kulakow ( Russian Фёдор Давыдович Кулаков ; born February 4, 1918 in Fitisch, today Lgov Rajon in the Kursk Oblast ; † July 17, 1978 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

Life

Kulakov grew up in a peasant family in the Kursk region . He joined the CPSU in 1940 and completed a distance learning course as an agricultural economist. From 1955 to 1959 he was first deputy minister for agriculture and later minister for cereal products of the Russian Soviet Republic . From 1960 to 1964 he was first secretary of the Stavropol Rural Regional Committee . At that time, the young Mikhail Gorbachev was also the party secretary there. 1964 Kulakov was of Leonid Yefremov replaced as First Secretary and Leonid Brezhnev summoned to Moscow, from 1965 until his death in 1978 he was in charge of agriculture secretary of the Central Committee . In April 1971 he rose to the highest political body in the USSR and became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at times he was considered a possible successor to Brezhnev. After his death, Kulakov was buried in an urn grave on the Kremlin wall ; he was awarded the Order of Lenin and the title of Hero of Socialist Labor , among other things .

Kulakov was a sponsor of Gorbachev, who was also his successor in 1978 in the office of Central Committee Secretary for Agriculture.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 16, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bse.chemport.ru
  2. ↑ Article about Kulakow in the Munzinger archive
  3. ↑ Article in Der Spiegel , edition 30/1978
  4. ^ Message in Neues Deutschland from February 4, 1978
personal data
SURNAME Kulakov, Fyodor Davydovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кулаков, Фёдор Давыдович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Fitisch
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1978
Place of death Moscow