Nuritdin Akramowitsch Muchitdinow

Nuritdin Akramowitsch Muchitdinow ( Russian Нуритдин Акрамович Мухитдинов ; Uzbek Nuriddin Akramovich Muhitdinov * 6 ^{. Jul} / 19th November  1917 ^greg. In Tashkent ; † 27. August 2008 ibid) served as Prime Minister of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and a member of the Politburo of the CPSU an Uzbek and Soviet politician.

Life

Ascent

Muchitdinow came from a poor farming family. He graduated from a cooperative technical college and worked in a consumer cooperative, attended a trade and economic institute and took part in educational courses. From 1940 to 1945 he served in the Red Army . He joined the Communist Party ( CPSU ) in 1942 .

After the Second World War he worked his way up in the Uzbek party organization. In 1950 he became the First Secretary of the Tashkent Regional Committee . From 1951 to 1955 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the Uzbek SSR . After all, from 1955 to 1957 he was the first secretary of the Uzbek party organization (party leader). He was also a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1952 to 1966 .

At the center of power

From 1956 to 1957 he was a candidate for the Politburo of the CPSU. In 1957 he was promoted to the highest political body in the USSR; together with Leonid Brezhnev , Yekaterina Furzewa and Georgi Zhukov, he became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) (former name: Presidium) on December 19 1957 to October 31, 1961. From 1957 to 1961 he was also secretary of the party's Central Committee . He owed this rise - like the others - to his ties to party leader Nikita Khrushchev , who considerably strengthened his position in the party after the replacement of the old Stalinists. Muchitdinov was the first Uzbek to achieve this high rank in the USSR . He represented the significant Central Asian minority in the party's presidium.

descent

As quickly as its star had risen, it also died out again. Khrushchev's confidants - Alexei Kiritschenko , Nikolai Belyayev , Nikolai Ignatov , Ekaterina Furzewa, Awerki Aristow , Pyotr Pospelow , Demjan Korottschenko - lost their high positions in the presidium or secretariat with him since 1960. After the XXII. At the 1961 party congress, Muchitdinov was unexpectedly not re-elected to the presidium and resigned to the insignificant post of deputy chairman of the Central Association of Consumer Cooperatives. However, he remained in the Central Committee (ZK). From 1968 to 1977 he was the Soviet ambassador to Syria. He later held the post of Deputy Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the USSR (until 1987). Muchitdinow died in August 2008 after a long illness.

literature

• Michel Tatu: Power and Powerlessness in the Kremlin ; Ullstein, Frankfurt, 1967
• Merle Fainsod : How Russia is governed ; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1965

predecessor	Office	successor
	Soviet ambassador to Damascus 1968–1977