biography
| name: |
Ryzhkov, Nikolay Ivanovich
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pronunciation:
[rushkof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Soviet statesman and prime minister (1985–90), born in the Urals, WC Russia. He studied at the Urals Polytechnic in Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk), and worked his way up to become head of the Uralmash engineering conglomerate, the largest industrial enterprise in the Soviet Union. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1956, he was brought to Moscow in 1975 as first deputy minister for heavy transport and machine building. He was the first deputy chairman of Gosplan (1979), and became head of economic affairs (1982). Brought into the Politburo by Gorbachev as chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1985, he suffered a heart attack in 1990, and was replaced. |
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