Mikhail Solomentsev

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Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Соломенцев; November 7, 1913 - February 15, 2008) was a high-ranking Soviet politician. He was born near Yelets and graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute in 1940. He was a leading Communist party functionary in Kazakhstan in 1962-64 and was in charge of the Rostov-on-Don obkom in 1964-66. He served as a secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union over the years 1966-71. Solomontsev was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian RSFR starting from 1971 and ending in 1983. He sat in the Politburo from 1983 until sacked by Mikhail Gorbachev five years later.