Podgorny, Nikolay

Podgorny, Nikolay

▪ Soviet statesman
in full  Nikolay Viktorovich Podgorny  
born Feb. 5 [Feb. 18, New Style], 1903, Karlovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire
died Jan. 12, 1983, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.

      Soviet statesman and Communist Party official.

      As a youth, Podgorny served as secretary in his district's Komsomol committee. He attended the Kiev Technological Institute for the Food Industry, graduating in 1931 and subsequently working in engineering jobs in the sugar industry. Podgorny's first government appointment came in 1939, as deputy people's commissar of the food-processing industry in the Ukraine; he was promoted in 1940 to deputy commissar of the Soviet food-processing industry. His first important Communist Party appointment was as first secretary of the Kharkov regional party committee (1950–53), and he soon rose to first secretary of the Ukraine party committee (1957–63). He became a full member of the Politburo in 1960, and he was later promoted to secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1963–65).

      Podgorny became involved in a power struggle with Leonid Brezhnev (Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich), who had become party first secretary in 1964. The apparent loser, Podgorny relinquished his secretaryship in 1965 and was given the less-influential post of chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1965 to 1977. Podgorny enhanced his position of ceremonial head of state and traveled widely, but real power was in the hands of Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party. On May 24, 1977, as a result of his resistance to Brezhnev's wish to hold both the party secretaryship and the Presidium chairmanship, Podgorny was ousted from the Politburo and “relieved” of his duties as chairman of the Presidium, with Brezhnev assuming the latter title. Thereafter Podgorny lived in retirement in Moscow.

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