Pyotr Demichev | |
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Пётр Демичев | |
First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union | |
In office 18 June 1986 – 1 October 1988 | |
President | Andrei Gromyko |
Preceded by | Vasily Kuznetsov |
Succeeded by | Anatoly Lukyanov |
Minister of Culture | |
In office 14 November 1974 – 18 June 1986 | |
Premier | Alexei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Ryzhkov |
Preceded by | Ekaterina Furtseva |
Succeeded by | Vasily Zakharov |
First Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee | |
In office 4 March 1960 – 1 November 1962 | |
Preceded by | Vladimir Ustinov |
Succeeded by | Nikolay Yegorychev |
Administrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers | |
In office 1 July 1958 – 3 March 1959 | |
Premier | Nikita Khrushchev |
Preceded by | Anatoly Korobov |
Succeeded by | George Stepanov |
First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Party Committee | |
In office 2 March 1959 – 6 July 1960 | |
Preceded by | Ivan Kapitonov |
Succeeded by | Grigory Abramov |
Candidate member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th Politburo | |
In office 16 November 1964 – 30 September 1988 | |
Member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th Secretariat | |
In office 31 October 1961 – 16 December 1974 | |
Personal details | |
Born | O.S. 21 December 1917] Kirov, Kaluga Oblast, Soviet Russia | 3 January 1918 [
Died | 10 August 2010 Zhavoronki, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation | (aged 92)
Nationality | Soviet (1917–1991), Russian (1991–2010) |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Profession | Civil servant |
Pyotr Nilovich Demichev (Russian: Пётр Ни́лович Де́мичев; 3 January 1918 [O.S. 21 December 1917] – 10 August 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician. He was deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of Culture from 1974 to 1986.[1] He was a deputy Politburo member from 1964 until his retirement in 1988. He was considered to be a "Communist Party ideologist" with little sympathy for liberal movements within the Soviet Union.[2]