Nikolai Ryzhkov

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Nikolai Ryzhkov is a Soviet statesman and politician who served as the last full-term head of government of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet politician
engineer
human
statesman
awardReceived Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of Merit for the Fatherland
surface form: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"

Order of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
candidateInElection 1991 Russian presidential election
countryOfCitizenship Russia
Soviet Union
dateOfBirth September 28, 1929
educatedAt Ural Federal University
surface form: Ural Polytechnic Institute
employer Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
fieldOfWork economics
industrial management
genreOfActivity public administration
headOfGovernment Soviet Union
inOfficeFrom 1985
inOfficeFromAsChairmanOfCouncilOfMinisters September 27, 1985
inOfficeToAsChairmanOfCouncilOfMinisters January 14, 1991
languageSpoken Russian
memberOf CPRF
surface form: Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Federation Council of Russia
State Duma
surface form: State Duma of Russia
nativeLanguage Russian
notableEvent Armenian earthquake relief efforts (1988)
Chernobyl disaster management
notableWork implementation of perestroika economic reforms
partOf Gorbachev era
surface form: Gorbachev administration
placeOfBirth Donetsk Oblast
Duleevka
Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian SSR
politicalAlignment communism
positionHeld Head of Government of the Soviet Union
surface form: Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union

Member of the CPSU Central Committee
Member of the Federation Council of Russia
Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee
Member of the State Duma of Russia
Prime Minister of the Soviet Union
predecessor Nikolai Tikhonov NERFINISHED
ranForOffice President of the RSFSR
residence Russia
successor Valentin Pavlov NERFINISHED
supportedBy Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
surface form: Communist Party of the RSFSR
workLocation Moscow

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perestroika keyEconomicReformer Nikolai Ryzhkov
subject surface form: Perestroika