The RSFSR premier who rose in the Leningrad Affair's wake and fell at the 19th Party Congress
In October 1952, immediately after the 19th Party Congress, Chernousov was removed from the Orgburo and the RSFSR premiership. His next job was director of the Moscow Searchlight Plant.
A technocratic party official born in Syzran to a railway worker, Chernousov began in Komsomol and graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. From 1939 to 1948 he served as Second Secretary of the Moscow Oblast Committee under Alexander Shcherbakov, then was appointed RSFSR premier in March 1949 after Mikhail Rodionov was purged in the Leningrad Affair. Immediately after the 19th Party Congress in October 1952 he was stripped of all party posts and demoted to director of the Moscow Searchlight Plant; only after Stalin's death was he brought back as Deputy Minister of the Automobile Industry, ending his career quietly in Gosplan and Comecon.
Career Timeline
- 1949–1952Chairman, RSFSR Council of Ministers
- 1949–1952Member, Orgburo of the CC VKP(b)
- 1948–1949Head, Dept. of Party, Trade Union & Komsomol Organs, CC VKP(b)
- 1939–19482nd Secretary, Moscow Oblast Committee VKP(b)
- 1939–1952Candidate member, CC VKP(b)
- 1938–19391st Secretary, Stalinsky District Committee, Moscow
- 1955–1957Deputy Minister, Automobile Industry USSR
- 1952–1955Director, Moscow Searchlight Plant