Pyotr Nilowitsch Demitschew

Pyotr Demichev ( Russian Пётр Нилович Демичев ; 21 December 1917 * ^{. Jul} / 3. January  1918 ^greg. In Pessotschnja today Kirov, Kaluga oblast ; † 10. August 2010 in the Moscow Oblast , Russia) was a Soviet politician of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), longtime candidate of the Politburo of the CPSU , Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU , Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union and First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .

Life

Demitschew, who came from a simple peasant and working-class family, did his military service in the Red Army between 1937 and 1944 and then began studying at the Institute for Chemical Technology in Moscow .

As early as 1945, however, he became head of a department and secretary of the district committee of the CPSU in Moscow, before he subsequently worked in the city administration and the CPSU in Moscow between 1950 and 1956. After working as secretary of the CPSU in Moscow Oblast from 1956 to 1958, Demichev became Director of General Administration at the Council of Ministers of the USSR . In 1959, however, he was appointed First Secretary of the CPSU in Moscow Oblast, before he became First Secretary of the CPSU in Moscow in 1960.

On October 31, 1961, he not only became a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPSU , but also secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. He held this position until December 16, 1974, at the same time became a candidate for the Presidium (since 1966 of the Politburo) of the Central Committee on November 16, 1964 and held this office for almost 24 years until September 30, 1988.

On November 14, 1974, Pyotr Demichev was appointed Minister of Culture as the successor to Yekaterina Furzewa, who died on October 24, 1974 , and was a member of the Council of Ministers of the USSR until June 18, 1986. Successor as minister was then Vasily Sakharov . Most recently, he was First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from June 18, 1986 to October 1, 1988 and thus de facto First Vice President of the USSR.

He has received several awards for his services in the Soviet Union and has not only received the Order of Lenin three times , but also the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor .

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