1. Lev Alekseyevich Voronin was a Soviet and Russian official.
21 Facts About Lev Voronin
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Lev Voronin served as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally the Vice-Premier of the Soviet Union, from 1989 to 1990.
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Responsible for the "general issues" of the cultural and economic administration of the Soviet Union during the late Gorbachev Era, Voronin became acting Chairman of the Council of Ministers in between Nikolai Ryzhkov's hospitalization and Valentin Pavlov's election as Prime Minister.
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Lev Voronin worked as a banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Lev Voronin was born on 22 February 1928 in the city of Perm, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
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Lev Voronin graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Ural Polytechnic Institute in 1949.
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In 1953 Lev Voronin became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Lev Voronin started working at an industrial plant in Sverdlovsk in 1949 as a common worker and eventually became the plant's manager.
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From 1959 to 1963 Lev Voronin was a chief engineer in a plant located in the Kamensk-Ural Sverdlovsk region, and from 1963 he started to work as a chief engineer for a plant in the Urals for the Sverdlovsk Supreme Soviet of the National Economy.
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Later that year Lev Voronin was appointed to the post of head of the radio and electronics industries.
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Lev Voronin became the Director of the Krasnogorsk Mechanical Plant under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense Industry in 1965 under Premier Alexei Kosygin and became the Director of the Production Planning Department of the Ministry of Defense Industry in 1969.
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Lev Voronin was Deputy Minister of Defense Industry from 1972 to 1979 and First Deputy Minister of Defense Industry from 1979 to 1980.
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From 1980 to 1982 Lev Voronin was responsible for overseeing the military-industrial complex through his post in the State Planning Committee.
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From 1980 to 1989 Lev Voronin was a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and from 1981 to 1991 he was a member of the CPSU Central Committee.
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Lev Voronin was one of two First Deputy Chairmen of the State Planning Committee under the chairmanship of Nikolai Baibakov.
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From 15 November 1985 to 7 June 1989 Lev Voronin was simultaneously a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Chairman of the State Committee for Material and Technical Supply.
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Gorbachev sent Lev Voronin to discuss the situation with the strikers and their leaders.
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When Ryzhkov suffered a heart attack in late December 1991, Lev Voronin was acting Premier of the Soviet Union, until Ryzhkov was succeeded in office by Valentin Pavlov on 14 January 1991.
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From March to September 1991 Lev Voronin was the Permanent Representative of the USSR to the European Community.
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Lev Voronin worked from 1992 or 1996, until his death as a Vice President of Montazhspetsbank, a Russian commercial bank.
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Lev Voronin died on 24 June 2008 in Moscow, Russian Federation.