Vitaly Ivanovich Worotnikov
Vitaly Vorotnikov ( Russian Виталий Иванович Воротников ., Scientific transliteration Vitalij Ivanovich Vorotnikov * 20th January 1926 in Voronezh , † 20 February 2012 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician , member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party and Prime Minister of the Russian SFSR (RSFSR) .
Life
education and profession
Worotnikow graduated from a technical college in Voronezh and worked from 1942 in the Dzerzhinsky locomotive factory as an apprentice and fitter in toolmaking. During the war he worked in agriculture for a while. In 1947, after further studies, he graduated in the field of technology for cutting cold metals. In 1948 he became head of an office in mechanical engineering. He studied until 1954 at the Faculty of Aircraft Construction at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute at what is now the University of Samara .
politics
Vorotnikov became a member of the CPSU in 1947 . From 1951 he held various party functions, becoming secretary of the party committee in a company in 1955 and secretary in the regional party committee in 1961. In 1963 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, and in 1967 he was appointed party leader in Kuibyshev Oblast . During this time, the car plant was established in Togliatti .
In 1970 he became a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) . In 1971 he became First Secretary of the Voronezh Regional Party Committee and in 1975 First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. From 1979 to 1982 he was the USSR Ambassador to Cuba . In 1982 he became first secretary of the CPSU in the Krasnodar region (successor: Georgi Petrovich Rasumovsky).
At the center of power
Supported by Yuri Andropov , Vorotnikov took over from Mikhail Solomenzew for the period from 1983 to 1988 as the chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the RSFSR. At the same time he was promoted to candidate of the Politburo of the CPSU in June 1983 and in the same year to a full member of the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from December 26, 1983 to July 14, 1990 In 1985 he was in talks as Prime Minister of the USSR, but this was Nikolai Ryschkow . He initially supported the reforms introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the USSR and then at the end of 1988 contradicted some reform approaches. In 1989 he spoke out against the creation of a separate Communist Party in the RSFSR. From 1988 to 1990 he was Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR - that is, President of the RSFSR. In 1990, like many members of the Politburo, he resigned from his position. Boris Yeltsin was succeeded in the office of President of the RSFSR .
Vorotnikov became a member of the Presidium of the Council of the All-Russian Organization of Veterans in 1992.
Honors (selection)
- 1982: Knight of the Order of Cuban Solidarity
- 1996: Honorary Citizen of Voronezh City
- Hero of socialist labor
- four orders of Lenin
- three orders of the Red Banner of Labor
- "Hammer and sickle" medal
- Order of the Great Patriotic War
- Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
- Russian Medal of Honor
- three ENEA gold medals
Works
- It happened that way. From the diary of a member of the Politburo , 1995
- This generation , 1999
- Havana - Moscow. Memorable Years , 2001
literature
- Mikhail Gorbachev: Memories , Settlers, Berlin, 1995, ISBN 3-88680-524-7
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Worotnikov, Vitaly Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vorotnikov, Vitalij Ivanovič; Воротников, Виталий Иванович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian politician, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voronezh |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 2012 |
| Place of death | Moscow |