Nikolai Viktorovich Garetovsky

Николай Викторович Гаретовский

Soviet Union state institutions Soviet communism

1926–2023 ○ Died

Finance official who chaired the State Bank of the USSR during perestroika

Born in 1926, he worked as an electrician at an aircraft plant in Moscow in 1942–1946 and graduated from the Moscow Finance Institute in 1950. Over the next sixteen years he rose in the USSR Ministry of Finance from economist to deputy head of a directorate. In 1966 he moved to the apparatus of the CPSU Central Committee, first as a consultant and then as head of a section. He was Deputy Minister of Finance in 1981–1986 and First Deputy Minister in 1986–1987, and chaired the Board of the State Bank of the USSR in 1987–1989. He died in Moscow in 2023.

Activities and affiliations

1987–1989 Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions · Economic management
1981–1987 Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1966–1981 Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks

Career Timeline

1942–1946Electrician at an aircraft plant in Moscow
1950–1966Economist, section head and deputy directorate head, USSR Ministry of Finance
1966–1981Consultant and section head in the CPSU Central Committee apparatus
1981–1986Deputy Minister of Finance of the USSR
1986–1987First Deputy Minister of Finance of the USSR
1987.08.22–1989.06.07Chairman of the Board of the State Bank of the USSR

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