Nikolai Ryzhkov

Premier of the Soviet Union
In office
September 27, 1985 – January 14, 1991
Preceded by	Nikolai Tikhonov
Succeeded by	Valentin Pavlov
Born	September 28, 1929

Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov (Николай Иванович Рыжков; born September 28, 1929-) was a Soviet official and, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, a Russian politician. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (or Premier of the Soviet Union) from September 27, 1985 to January 14, 1991 during the era of glasnost and perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev. Image File history File links Nikolai_ryzhkov. ... Premier of the Soviet Union is the commonly used English term for the offices of Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars of the USSR (Председатель Совета Народных Комиссаров СССР) (1923-1946) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Председатель Совета Министров СССР) (1946-1991), who... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... This article is about the year. ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov (ru: Николай Александрович Тихонов ) (Kharkiv, May 14, 1905 – Moscow, June 1, 1997) was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (or Premier of the Soviet Union) from 1980 to 1985. ... Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (September 26, 1937 - March 30, 2003) was the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from January to August 1991. ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (272nd in leap years). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (272nd in leap years). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Soviet redirects here. ... // The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ... Premier of the Soviet Union is the commonly used English term for the offices of Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars (or Sovnarkom)(1923-1946) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1946_1991) (Председатель Совета Министров СССР) _ who was the head of government in... A premier is an executive official of government. ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... This article is about the year. ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Poster showing Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika ( , Russian: ) is the Russian word (which passed into English) for the economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. ... (Russian: , Mihail Sergeevič Gorbačëv, IPA: , commonly anglicized as Gorbachev; born March 2, 1931) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ...

A technocrat, Ryzhkov rose through the ranks first as a welder at the Sverdlovsk Uralmash Plant and then as chief engineer and, in 1970-1975, manager of the Uralmash Production Amalgamation, one of the largest Soviet companies. Technocrat can refer to: An individual who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion. ... Photograph of snow-covered Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburgs Church on the Blood, built on the spot where the Tsar and his family were murdered. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1956 and became first deputy minister of heavy and transport machine building in 1975. He became first deputy chairman of the Soviet planning agency, Gosplan, in 1979. In 1981 he was elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU. On November 22, 1982, after Leonid Brezhnev's death and Yuri Andropov's rise to power, Central Committee Secretary Kirillenko was forced to retire and his place was taken by Ryzhkov, who was also put in charge of the Central Committee's Economics Department. After Mikhail Gorbachev's elevation to the post of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Ryzhkov was made a member of the ruling Politburo on April 23, 1985. 5 months later, on September 27, 1985, the octagenarian Soviet premier Nikolai Tikhonov was sent into retirement and Ryzhkov took his place. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when the Bolsheviks became the All... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gosplan (Госпла́н) was the committee for economic planning in the Soviet Union. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Central Committee, abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, Tseka, was the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (Russian: , Leonid Ilič Brežnev; December 19 [O.S. January 1 1907] 1906 – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, though at first in partnership with others. ... Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Андро́пов; 15 June [O.S. 2 June] 1914 – February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU from November 12, 1982 until his death just sixteen months later. ... The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (sometimes called First Secretary) was the title synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union after Lenins death in 1924. ... Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov (ru: Николай Александрович Тихонов ) (Kharkiv, May 14, 1905 – Moscow, June 1, 1997) was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (or Premier of the Soviet Union) from 1980 to 1985. ...

Ryzhkov supported Gorbachev's attempt to revive and restructure the Soviet economy through decentralising planning (see central planning) and introducing new technology. However, he resisted Gorbachev's later attempts to introduce market mechanisms into the Soviet economy. When the Politburo was restructured at the XVIIIth Congress of the Communist Party in July 1990, all government officials except Gorbachev were excluded from it and Ryzhkov lost his Politburo seat by default. In December 1990 he was hospitalized with a heart condition (rumored to have been invented to cushion the blow) and, while he was recovering, the Supreme Soviet adopted a new law replacing the Council of Ministers with a new Cabinet of Ministers. The law was passed on December 26, 1990, but the new structure was not put in place until January 14, 1991 when Valentin Pavlov took over as prime minister. A planned economy is an economic system in which decisions about the production, allocation and consumption of goods and services are planned ahead of time, usually in a centralized fashion, though some proposed systems favour decentralized planning. ... This article is about the year. ... The Supreme Soviet (Russian: , Verhovniy Sovet, literally the Supreme Council) comprised the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (September 26, 1937 - March 30, 2003) was the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from January to August 1991. ... Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...

After recovering in early 1991, Ryzhkov was the Communist candidate in the first election of the President of the Russian Federation (not to be confused with the President of the Soviet Union) on June 12, 1991. He won less than 17% of the vote to Boris Yeltsin's 57% and retired from politics, spending the next few years working in banking and investment industries. In December 1995 he was elected to the new Russian Duma from the Power to the People block and in 1996 became a leader of the left wing Peoples' Power faction in the Duma. In the late 1990s he participated in the Communist-led alliance of leftists and nationalists known as People's Patriotic Union of Russia. The President of Russia (ru: Президент России) is the highest position within the Government of Russia. ... The President of the Soviet Union was the Head of State of the USSR from March 15, 1990 to December 25, 1991. ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Duma (Ду́ма in Russian) is any of various representative assemblies in modern Russia and Russian history. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from 2000 and 2001. ...

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Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov (ru: Николай Александрович Тихонов ) (Kharkiv, May 14, 1905 – Moscow, June 1, 1997) was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (or Premier of the Soviet Union) from 1980 to 1985. ... Premier of the Soviet Union is the commonly used English term for the offices of Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars of the USSR (Председатель Совета Народных Комиссаров СССР) (1923-1946) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Председатель Совета Министров СССР) (1946-1991), who... Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (September 26, 1937 - March 30, 2003) was the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from January to August 1991. ...

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