biography
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Ligachev, Yegor Kuzmich
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pronunciation:
[ligachof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1920– )
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| biography:
| Soviet politician. After training as an engineer, he worked in the Urals region during World War 2, joining the Communist Party in 1944. In 1957 he became Party chief of Akademgorodok. He was brought to Moscow by Khrushchev (1961), then in 1965 was sent to Tomsk, in W Siberia, where he was regional Party boss for 18 years. He was promoted to the central Party secretariat by Yuri Andropov (1983), becoming ideology secretary (1984), and with the accession to power of Mikhail Gorbachev (1985) he was brought into the Politburo. He initially served as Gorbachev's deputy, but in 1988 was demoted to the position of agriculture secretary. In 1995 he became vice-chairman of the Union of Communist Parties of the former USSR. |
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