Vladimir Dolgikh

Vladimir Dolgikh
Владимир Долгих
Head of the Metallurgical Department of the Central Committee Secretariat
Personal details
Born 5 December 1924(1924-12-05)
Ilansky, Yeniseysk Governorate, Soviet Union
Nationality Soviet and Russian
Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Profession Civil servant, military officer

Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh (Russian: Владимир Иванович Долгих; 5 December 1924) was a Soviet-Russian political figure; a head of the Metallurgical Department of the Central Committee Secretariat. He was a candidate-member (non-voting) of the Political Bureau (Politburo) from 1982 to 1988.

Biographical data

Dolgikh early career involved various industrial and engineering management positions in Krasnoyarsk and Norilsk. In 1969 he became the First Secretary of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Committee of the CPSU. He was made a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1971.[1] In 1972 he became a Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[2]

Dolgikh was elected as candidate-member of Politburo in May 1982, at the same plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU that made Yuri Andropov a Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[3] Dolgikh retired from all his CPSU leadership positions in September 1988.[4]

Dolgikh received the Candidate of Sciences degree from the Irkutsk Mining-Metallurgical Institute.[2]

References

  1. ^ Martin McCauley, Who's Who in Russia Since 1900, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0415138981; p. 74
  2. ^ a b David A. Law Russian civilization, MSS Information Corp., New York, 1975; p. 240
  3. ^ Stephen White, After Gorbachev, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0521452643; p. 9
  4. ^ White, p. 20
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