Yevgeny Nikolayevich Makhov

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Soviet communism 1937–

Army political officer who was acting chairman of the CPSU Central Control Commission until the party was banned

Born into a Russian working-class family in Torzhok, he joined the army in 1954 and the Communist Party in 1957, on graduating from the Leningrad Military Engineering School. His whole career was in the army's political organs: head of Komsomol work at the Main Political Directorate, political chief of a corps and an army in the Leningrad Military District, first deputy political chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and, in 1985–1989, political chief of the Carpathian Military District; he also took part in the Chernobyl clean-up. A lieutenant general, he joined the Party Control Committee in 1989, became deputy and then first deputy chairman of the Central Control Commission revived by the Twenty-eighth Congress in July 1990, and when Pugo became Interior Minister in April 1991 served as acting chairman until the party was banned that November.

Also known as: E. N. Makhov