biography
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Kosygin, Alexey Nikolayevich
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pronunciation:
[koseegin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–80)
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| biography:
| Russian statesman and premier (1964–80), born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. Educated in Leningrad, he joined the army in 1919, and the Communist Party in 1927. Elected to the Supreme Soviet (1938), he held a variety of industrial posts, becoming a member of the Central Committee (1939–60) and the Politburo (1946–52). Chairman of the State Economic Planning Commission (1959–60), and first deputy prime minister (with Mikoyan) from 1960, he succeeded Khrushchev as chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1964. He resigned in 1980 because of ill health. |
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