Alexei Kosygin

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Alexei Kosygin was a Soviet statesman who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Premier) of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and was a key figure in economic policy and reforms during the Brezhnev era.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet politician
human
statesman
awardReceived Hero of Socialist Labour
Lenin Prize
Order of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
birthName Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin
conflict World War II
countryOfCitizenship Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
employer Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Government of the Soviet Union
ethnicGroup Russian
familyName Kosygin
givenName Alexei
headOfGovernmentOf Soviet Union
ideology Marxism–Leninism
knownFor economic policy and reforms during the Brezhnev era
languageSpoken Russian
memberOf All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Komsomol
militaryRank colonel
name Alexei Kosygin
nativeLanguage Russian
notableWork implementation of economic decentralization measures in the 1960s
occupation politician
statesman
officeEnd 1980-10-23
officeStart 1964-10-15
partOf Brezhnev leadership
patronymicName Nikolayevich
politicalAlignment Soviet
positionHeld Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Russian SFSR
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Premier of the Soviet Union
candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee
member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee
member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
member of the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee
sexOrGender male
workedIn Moscow
workedOn Soviet economic reforms of 1965


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