12 January 1983(1983-01-12) (aged 79) Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting place
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality
Soviet
Political party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1930–1976)
Spouse
Natalya Nikolayevna Podgornaya (1908–1995)
Children
Natalia and Lesia
Profession
Mechanical engineer,[1] civil servant
Signature
Central institution membership
1963–1965: Member, 22nd Secretariat
1960–1977: Full member, 20th/21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th & 25th Politburo
1958–1960: Candidate member, 20th Presidium
1952–1982: Full member, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, & 25th Central Committee
Other political offices held
1953–1957: Second Secretary, Communist Party of Ukraine
Jan.–Mar. 1958: Deputy Chairman, Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian SFSR
1950–1953: First Secretary, Kharkiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
1944-1946: Deputy People's Commissar of the Food Industry, Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR
1942-1944: Director, Moscow Technological Institute of Food Industry
1940–1942: Deputy People's Commissar of the Food Industry, Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
1939–1940: Deputy People's Commissar of the Food Industry, Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR
Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny[a] (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. In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union and climbed up the Soviet hierarchy after years of service to the country's centrally planned economy. By 1953, Podgorny became Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1953 before later serving as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1957 to 1963.
In October 1964, Podgorny participated in a coup replacing Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Thereafter, as a member of the collective leadership, Podgorny formed an unofficial Triumvirate (also known by its Russian name Troika) alongside Premier Alexei Kosygin and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. On 6 December 1965, he replaced Anastas Mikoyan as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. After Kosygin's standing was damaged in the wake of the Prague Spring crisis in 1968, Podgorny emerged as the second-most powerful figure in the country behind Brezhnev.[2] Thereafter, his influence over policy declined as Brezhnev consolidated his control over the regime. By June 1977, he was removed as Chairman of the Presidium as well as a member of the Politburo. Upon his removal from the Soviet leadership, Podgorny was forced to resign from active politics and sidelined in Soviet affairs until his death in 1983.
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