33 Facts About Ivan Silayev

Ivan Stepanovich Silayev was a Soviet and Russian politician.

Ivan Silayev served as Prime Minister of the Soviet Union through the offices of chairman of the Committee on the Operational Management of the Soviet economy and chairman of the Inter-republican Economic Committee.

Ivan Silayev left all posts in the central government in October 1990 to focus in his post as chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR, which he had been appointed to in June of that year.

Ivan Silayev was born on 21 October 1930, in Baktyzino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.

Ivan Silayev graduated from the Kazan Aviation Institute in 1954 as a mechanical engineer.

In 1959 Ivan Silayev became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Ivan Silayev served briefly as Minister of Machine-Tool and Tool Building Industry of the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1981.

At the 26th Congress Ivan Silayev was elected to the Central Committee.

In 1985, during Mikhail Gorbachev's rule, Ivan Silayev was appointed deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and chairman of the Machine-Building Bureau of the Council of Ministers in Nikolai Ryzhkov's first and second governments.

Ivan Silayev served in these posts until he was appointed Premier of the Russian SFSR in 1990.

Mikhail Bocharov, a successful businessman and leader of the cooperative movement, rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute Yuri Ryzhkov, and Ivan Silayev were chosen as the candidates.

Ivan Silayev did not have any similar economic reform plans, but was widely considered to be Yeltsin's favourite for the post.

In 1989, Valentin Pavlov, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from 14 January to 28 August 1991, had gathered together enough information on the errors and omissions of Ivan Silayev to weaken his position as Deputy Premier.

Ivan Silayev never forgave Pavlov and relations between the two grew colder when Pavlov became the Prime Minister.

Ivan Silayev repeatedly opined that if he ever was given conflicting instructions by the Premier of the Soviet Union and Yeltsin, he would always "observe the laws of the RSFSR", meaning he would obey Yeltsin.

In contrast to his predecessor, Aleksandr Vlasov, Ivan Silayev tried to modernise the Russian Government.

Ivan Silayev decided to break with the old Soviet nomenklatura system of electing cabinet members by electing members using an "objective" and "scientific" basis.

Ivan Silayev's government lacked ideological unity, and several conservative members were elected to the cabinet in July 1990, among them Oleg Lobov and Gennadii Kulik.

In July 1990 Ivan Silayev agreed to create parallel executive-legislative administrative bodies.

Ivan Silayev had strong competitors for the post, such as Yurii Skokov, but won the election.

Ivan Silayev was one of several leading Russian SFSR politicians who flew to Gorbachev's summer house in the immediate aftermath of the failed coup.

On 28 August 1991, a Supreme Soviet temporarily gave the COMSE the same authority as the Cabinet of Ministers, and Ivan Silayev became the Soviet Union's de facto Premier.

Ivan Silayev remained Chairman of the new IEC and was considered "Prime Minister of the Economic Community", although the office and the community had no future, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union coming only weeks later.

When he first took office, holding the Russian premiership under Boris Yeltsin at the same time, Ivan Silayev had wanted to reduce the powers of the central government and give more powers to the Soviet Republics.

Ivan Silayev tried to maintain an integrated economy while initiating the marketisation of the economy.

On 19 December 1991, Yeltsin declared the COMSE committee, which served as the Soviet Union's last government, dissolved, and Ivan Silayev retired from his post, one day after he had been appointed to his new position as a diplomat for Russia.

On 18 December 1991, Ivan Silayev was appointed by Yeltsin as the Permanent Representative of Russia to the European Community in Brussels; he resigned from this post on 7 February 1994.

In late 1994 Ivan Silayev became the President of the Machine-Building Association of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which consisted of more than a hundred civilian and military enterprises and associations, mostly of Russian origin.

Ivan Silayev became a member of the Ecological Movement "Cedar" in 1995.

On 26 September 2002, Ivan Silayev became Chairman of the Russian Union of Mechanical Engineers.

Ivan Silayev died on 8 February 2023 At the age of 92 in Nizhny Novgorod.

Ivan Silayev was buried on February 11,2023 at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow next to his wife.

On 19 October 2000 and on 21 October 2005 Ivan Silayev was awarded the Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation.