Vasili Kuznetsov (politician)

Vasili Kuznetsov
Василий Кузнецов


First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
In office 7 October 1977 – 18 June 1986
President	Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko Andrei Gromyko
Preceded by	None — post established
Succeeded by	Pyotr Demichev
Full member of the 19th Politburo
In office 16 October 1952 – 5 March 1953
Candidate member of the 25th, 26th Politburo
In office 3 October 1977 – 25 February 1986
Member of the Orgburo
In office 18 March 1946 – 14 October 1952
Personal details
Born	(1901-02-13)13 February 1901 Sofilovka, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	5 June 1990(1990-06-05) (aged 89) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Vasili Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Василий Васильевич Кузнецов; 13 February [O.S. 31 January] 1901 – 5 June 1990) was a Russian Soviet politician who acting as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1983, for a second time in 1984, and for a third time in 1985.

Kuznetsov was born in Sofilovka, Kostroma Governorate. He joined the Communist Party in May 1927. He took a break from his engineering education when he went to the United States to study metal processing at Carnegie Mellon University from 1931 to 1933.

Kuznetsov held a variety of government and Communist Party positions beginning in 1940. He was Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities from 12 March 1946 to 12 March 1950. In 1955 he became First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 7 October 1977 he was elected as First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a position he held until 18 June 1986. Upon the deaths of Leonid Brezhnev (1982), Yuri Andropov (1984) and Konstantin Chernenko (1985), Kuznetsov became acting chairman of the Presidium until the election of a successor.

He retired in 1986 and died in Moscow on 5 June 1990.^[1]

References

↑ "Vasily Kuznetsov, 90, Dies; Former Soviet Vice President", The Washington Post, 7 June 1990.

Nikolai A. Zenkovič, Samye zakrytye ljudi i.(Russian) Encyclopedia of biographies, OLMA-Press, Moscow, 2002, ISBN 5-94850-035-7; pp. 298–292

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