Kalinovka is a village in Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Guberniya, Soviet Union (now Kursk Oblast, Russia). Kursk Oblast (КурÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¾Ð±Ð»Ð°ÑÑ‚ÑŒ) is a regional subdivision of Russia. ...
It was the birthplace of Nikita Khrushchev. (help· info) (ÐикиÌта СергеÌевич Хрущёв) IPA: (commonly anglicized as Khrushchev) April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971, was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ...
He was ousted as the result of what his critics in the leadership called “harebrained schemes” to reorganize the party and state structure, radically increase agricultural production, and raise the standard of living in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Khrushchev was born to a poor family in Kalinovka, near the village of Kursk in southwestern Russia.
His grandfather had been a serf, or indentured farm laborer, and his father was a peasant who sometimes worked in the mines.
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