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Podgorny was born to a Ukrainian working-class family in the city of Karlovka on 18 February 1903.
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Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny

(b. Karlovka, 18 Feb. 1903; d. Moscow, 12 Jan. 1983)

Ukrainian; member of the Presidium of the CPSU 1958–65 Podgorny was the son of Ukrainian working-class parents. He worked first as a manual worker and then as an engineer in the Ukrainian sugar industry. His political career started in 1939 when he became Deputy Commissar for the food industry in the Ukraine. He held various posts connected with food production at the state and regional level until 1946, when he was made the Ukrainian government's representative in Moscow. He returned to the Ukraine in 1950, as First Secretary of the Kharkov regional party committee, and then became Second Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, benefiting from the patronage of Khrushchev. He entered the Central Committee in 1956 and the Presidium (later Politburo) in 1958, becoming a full member in 1960. In 1963 he moved to Moscow as a Secretary of the Central Committee. Podgorny's position weakened after Khrushchev's fall in 1964. In 1965 he was removed as Secretary of the Central Committee, and given the lar

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Nikolai Podgorny

POLITICIAN

1903 - 1983

Nikolai Podgorny

Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (18 February [O.S. 5 February] 1903 – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977. Podgorny was born to a Ukrainian working-class family in the city of Karlovka on 18 February 1903. He later graduated from a local worker's school in 1926 before completing his education at the Kiev Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

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Nikolai Podgorny was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1964 to 1977. He was also the First Secretary

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Nikolai Podgorny (18 February 1903-12 January 1983) was Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 9 December 1965 to 16 June 1977, succeeding Anastas Mikoyan and preceding Leonid Brezhnev.

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Nikolai Podgorny was born in Karlovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire, and he was educated at the Kiev Institute for Food Technology. He came to benefit from the gap in the state administration left after Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, so that in 1939 he became Deputy People's Commissar for the Ukrainian food industry, and in 1940 occupied that post for the Soviet Union as a whole. A protege of Nikita Khrushchev, he joined the CPSU Central Committee in 1956, and the Politburo in 1960. In 1963, he became a Secretary of the Central Committee. He was an important member during the transition of power from Khrushchev to Leonid Brezhnev, who maneuvered him to become the titular head of state in 1965, after which his power declined as that of Brezhnev increased.