Former Lipetsk party chief who was the last head of the CPSU Central Committee Organisational Department
Born in 1936 in the village of Novopokrovka in Tambov Oblast, he worked as a local newspaper journalist and joined the CPSU in 1960; from 1968 he held district and regional party posts in Tambov Oblast. In 1981–1982 he was sent to Afghanistan as an adviser to the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, and in 1984–1989 he was First Secretary of the Lipetsk regional party committee. He became a Central Committee secretary in September 1989, headed the Department of Party Construction and Cadre Policy from July 1990 and the Central Committee Organisational Department from October 1990, until the party's activity was suspended in August 1991. He was a People's Deputy of the RSFSR in 1990–1993 and died in Moscow in 2021.
Activities and affiliations
Career Timeline
- 1975–1981Secretary of the Tambov regional party committee
- 1981–1982Adviser to the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- 1983–1984Second Secretary of the Tambov regional party committee
- 1984.01–1989.09First Secretary of the Lipetsk regional party committee
- 1989.09.20–1991.08.29Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee
- 1990.07–10Head of the Central Committee Department of Party Construction and Cadre Policy
- 1990.10–1991.08.29Head of the Central Committee Organisational Department
- 1990–1993People's Deputy of the RSFSR