Nikolai Alexandrovich Mikhailov

Nikolai Alexandrovich Mikhailov ( Russian Николай Александрович Михайлов ; born September 27 ^{. Jul} / 10. October  1906 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 25. May 1982 ) was a Soviet journalist , diplomat , politician and functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who was first secretary of the Communist Youth Association Komsomol between 1938 and 1952 and briefly served on the party's top management body from October 1952 to March 1953 as a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU . Later he was ambassador to Poland and Indonesia and for several years Minister of Culture of the USSR.

Life

Studied and worked as a journalist

Mikhailov graduated from school between 1928 and 1929 to study at the Moscow Workers' Evening University and then to study at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University , which he graduated in 1935 with a diploma. During his studies, he joined the Communist All-Union Party (Bolsheviks) (WKP (B)) in 1930 and between 1930 and 1931 did military service in the Red Army .

In addition to his studies, he worked from 1931 to 1937 as an editor of the works newspaper Динамо ("Dynamo") of the metallurgical plant "Sickle and Hammer" ( Серп и молот ) and as an editor of the daily Pravda .

Komsomol official, Politburo member and Central Committee secretary

From 1937 to 1938 Mikhailov was editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda , the newspaper of the Communist Youth Association Komsomol .

On November 22, 1938, Mikhailov succeeded Alexander Kosarev, who was shot a year later, as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and thus chairman of the Communist Party's youth association. He held this position for almost 14 years until he was replaced by Alexander Schelepin on October 30, 1952.

On March 21, 1939 he was on the XVIII. WKP (B) party congress was elected a member of the Central Committee and belonged to it until March 30, 1971. One day later, on March 22, 1939, he also became a member of the organizational office of the Central Committee , of which he was a member until October 5, 1952.

Then Mikhailov became a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU on October 16, 1952 and remained in this post until March 14, 1953. At the same time he was a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU between October 16, 1952 and March 5, 1953 and was thus a member of the party's top management body. During this time he was also a member of the Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU from October 18, 1952 to March 5, 1953, and at the same time head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department from October 30, 1952 to March 14, 1953 Central Committee of the CPSU.

After the death of Josef Stalin on March 5, 1953, Mikhailov lost his influence, but on March 10, 1953, he was appointed First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Committee of the CPSU as the successor to Nikita Khrushchev, who had risen to the position of First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. Almost a year later, on March 25, 1954, Ivan Kapitonov followed him to this post.

Ambassador and Minister of Culture

Mikhailov then switched to the foreign service and acted as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the USSR to the People's Republic of Poland as successor to Georgi Popov from March 28, 1954 until his replacement by Panteleimon Ponomarenko on May 8, 1955.

On March 22, 1955, he replaced Georgi Alexandrov as Minister of Culture of the USSR and held this post in the Council of Ministers of the USSR until his replacement by Ekaterina Furzewa on May 6, 1960.

He then switched back to the foreign service and followed Boris Volkov on July 2, 1960 as the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the USSR to Indonesia . After almost five years at this post, he was followed there on April 27, 1965 by Mikhail Sytenko , while on September 10, 1960 he succeeded Pavel Romanov as chairman of the press committee at the Council of Ministers of the USSR. In March 1970 he was retired and replaced by Boris Stukalin .

1946–1962 and 1966–1970 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .

For his many years of service to the Soviet Union, Mikhailov was awarded the Order of Lenin three times , including on his 50th birthday on October 10, 1956. He also received the Order of the Great Patriotic War .

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• CV (Knowbysight.info)