15 Facts About Fyodor Kulakov

Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War.

Fyodor Kulakov was elected to several important seats in the 1960s.

Fyodor Kulakov became a leading figure of Soviet leadership, and impressed Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to such an extent that Western commentators believed that Kulakov would become Brezhnev's successor.

Fyodor Kulakov was born in 1918 to a peasant family in Penza Oblast.

In 1938, Fyodor Kulakov started work in a sugar combine, and attended an Agricultural Institute, from which he graduated in 1941.

Fyodor Kulakov was later appointed to the position of Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Regional Party Committee of the Penza Oblast.

In Penza, Fyodor Kulakov became a close companion of future Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko.

In 1964, Fyodor Kulakov was brought to Moscow to become the Head of the Agricultural Department of the Central Committee.

Eleven months later, Fyodor Kulakov was appointed to the post of Central Committee Secretary for Agriculture.

Fyodor Kulakov was elected to the Central Committee in 1964, and to a seat in the Secretariat in September 1965.

At the 24th Party Congress, Fyodor Kulakov became a Political Bureau member without serving a term as candidate member.

Three other young Politburo members, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Alexander Shelepin and Dmitry Polyansky, were all believed to have a future in the Council of Ministers, while First World commentators speculated that Fyodor Kulakov's future was more in line with political and executive work at the top level of leadership.

Fyodor Kulakov was one of four who had a seat in both the Secretariat and Politburo; the others were Brezhnev, Suslov, and Andrei Kirilenko.

The most commonly assumed cause of Fyodor Kulakov's death is natural causes, but there exist other theories as well.

Fyodor Kulakov was cremated and his ashes was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.