Soviet politician and intelligence officer; Chairman of the KGB (1958-1961)
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Nikolayevich and the family name is Shelepin.
Alexander Shelepin
Александр Шелепин
Shelepin in 1966
Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
In office 1967–1975
Preceded by
Viktor Grishin
Succeeded by
Alexey Shibaev
Chairman of the Party and State Control Committee
In office 23 November 1962 – 6 December 1965
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Position abolished
2nd Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB)
In office 25 December 1958 – 13 November 1961
Premier
Nikita Khrushchev
Preceded by
Ivan Serov
Succeeded by
Vladimir Semichastny
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
In office 23 November 1962 – 9 December 1965
Premier
Alexei Kosygin
Preceded by
Mikhail Yefremov
Succeeded by
Zia Nureyev
First Secretary of the Komsomol
In office 30 October 1952 – 28 March 1958
Preceded by
Nikolai Mikhailov
Succeeded by
Vladimir Semichastny
Full member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th Politburo
In office 16 November 1964 – 16 April 1975
Member of the 22nd, 23rd Secretariat
In office 31 October 1961 – 26 September 1967
Personal details
Born
Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin
(1918-08-18)18 August 1918 Voronezh, Soviet Russia
Died
24 October 1994(1994-10-24) (aged 76) Moscow, Russian Federation
Citizenship
Soviet (until 1991) and Russian
Political party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940-1984)
Alma mater
Moscow State University (1941)
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Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Шеле́пин; 18 August 1918 – 24 October 1994) was a Soviet politician and intelligence officer. A long-time member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister, as a full member of the Politburo and as the chairman of the KGB from December 1958 to November 1961. He continued to maintain decisive influence in the KGB until 1967; his successor as chairman of the KGB, Vladimir Semichastny, was his client and protégé.[1]
Intelligent, ambitious, and well-educated,[2][1] Shelepin was the leader of a hard-line faction within the Communist Party that played a decisive role in overthrowing Nikita Khrushchev in 1964. Opposed to the policy of détente, he was eventually outmaneuvered by Leonid Brezhnev and gradually stripped of his power, thus failing in his ambition to lead the Soviet Union.
^ abMartin McCauley, Who's Who in Russia since 1900, page 184, Routledge, 1997
^Aleksandr Nikolaevich Shelepin, Oxford Dictionary of Political Biography
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