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Mikhail Solomentsev

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Mikhail Solomentsev
Михаил Соломенцев
Solomentsev in 1972

Chairman of the Party Control Committee of the Central Committee
In office 15 June 1983 – 30 September 1988
Preceded by	Arvīds Pelše
Succeeded by	Boris Pugo
Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Government of the Russian SFSR
In office 28 July 1971 – 24 June 1983
Preceded by	Gennady Voronov
Succeeded by	Vitaly Vorotnikov
Full member of the 26th, 27th Politburo
In office 26 December 1983 – 30 September 1988
Member of the 23rd, 24th Secretariat
In office 13 December 1966 – 23 November 1971

Personal details
Born	(1913-11-07)7 November 1913 Yeletsky Uyezd, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	15 February 2008(2008-02-15) (aged 94) Moscow, Russian Federation
Nationality	Soviet, Russian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940-1988)

Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Соло́менцев; 7 November [O.S. 24 October] 1913 – 15 February 2008) was a high-ranking Soviet politician and statesman.

Early life[edit]

He was born near Yelets and graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute in 1940.

Career[edit]

Solomentsev was a leading Communist Party functionary in Kazakhstan during 1962–1964 and was in charge of the Rostov-on-Don obkom from 1964–1966. He served as a secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the years 1966–1971. Solomontsev was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian RSFR starting from 1971 and ending in 1983. He sat in the Politburo from 1983 until he was sacked by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988. In October 1987 he led a Commission of the Politburo to look into the “purge” trials of the 1930s. The commission also included KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov and Alexander Yakovlev. Yakovlev subsequently took over the chairmanship of the Commission.^[1]

Decorations and awards[edit]

Twice Hero of Socialist Labour (1973 and 1983)
Four Orders of Lenin
Two Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Star

References[edit]

^ Biggart, John (1998). "The Rehabilitation of Bogdanov". Bogdanov and His Work. A Guide to the Published and Unpublished Works of Alexander A. Bogdanov (Malinovsky 1973—1928). Retrieved 21 July 2021.