Mikhail Vasilyevich Simyanin

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Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Simjanin ( Russian Михаил Васильевич Зимянин , English transcription: Mikhail Zimyanin ; born November 21, 1914 in Vitebsk ; † May 3, 1995 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and ambassador .

biography

Simjanin came from a working class family. He worked u. a. 1929 in a railway repair shop. From 1936 to 1938 he was an instructor in a school and from 1936 to 1938 he served in the Red Army . In 1939 he became a member of the CPSU . From 1939 to 1946 he was secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in the Belarusian SSR , from 1940 first secretary. During the German occupation he built up the Komsomol organization underground and from 1942 worked with the partisans . In 1946 he became Minister of Education of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) and in 1947 Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus. From 1952 to 1956 and from 1966 he was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU .

From 1956 to 1958 he was ambassador of the Soviet Union in North Vietnam and from 1960 to 1965 in Czechoslovakia . In 1965 he became Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR and soon afterwards he was editor-in-chief of Pravda until 1976 and chairman of the Union of Soviet Journalists from 1966 to 1976 .

On March 5, 1976 he became secretary in the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the instigation of Konstantin Chernenko . Together with Suslow he was responsible for ideological issues as well as for science, education, culture and the media. The new General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev replaced him in 1986 with his confidante Yakovlev .

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personal data
SURNAME Simjanin, Michail Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simjanin, Michail; Cimyanine, mikhail; Зимянин, Михаил Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitebsk
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1995
Place of death Moscow