1. Nikolai Tikhonov served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1985, and as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally First Vice Premier, from 1976 to 1980.
21 Facts About Nikolai Tikhonov
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Nikolai Tikhonov was replaced as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1985 by Nikolai Ryzhkov.
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Nikolai Tikhonov was born in the city of Kharkiv in 1905 to a Russian-Ukrainian working-class family; he graduated in the 1920s and started working in the 1930s.
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Nikolai Tikhonov was appointed deputy chairman of the Gosplan in 1963.
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Nikolai Tikhonov retired from active politics in 1989 as a pensioner.
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Nikolai Tikhonov worked as an assistant engineer from 1924 to 1926.
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Four years later, in 1930, Nikolai Tikhonov graduated as an engineer, earning a degree from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute.
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From 1930 to 1941, Nikolai Tikhonov worked as an engineer at the Lenin Metallurgical Plant in Dnipropetrovsk; he was appointed as the plant's Chief Engineer in January 1941.
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Nikolai Tikhonov joined the All-Union Communist Party in 1940 and by the end of the decade, had secured a job as a plant director.
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Nikolai Tikhonov was quickly promoted, and started working for the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy in the 1950s.
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Between 1955 and 1960 Nikolai Tikhonov became a Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy, a member of the Scientific Council of the Council of Ministers, and finally, a deputy chairman of the State Planning Committee.
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At the 23rd party congress in 1966, Nikolai Tikhonov was elected a member of the Central Committee.
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In 1978 Nikolai Tikhonov was elected a candidate member of the Politburo and was made a voting member of the Politburo in 1979.
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Early in his term, in January 1981, Nikolai Tikhonov admitted that the government's demographic policy was one of the weakest areas of his cabinet.
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Some Western analysts speculated that the appointment of Andrei Gromyko to the First Deputy Premiership, again without Nikolai Tikhonov's consent, was a sign that his position within the Soviet hierarchy was weakened.
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When Chernenko died in 1985, Nikolai Tikhonov tried, but failed, to find a contender to Gorbachev's candidacy to the General Secretaryship.
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On 23 May 1985 Nikolai Tikhonov presented his development plan for 1985 to 1990, and up until 2000, the plan was criticised by co-workers, and Gorbachev told his colleagues that Nikolai Tikhonov was "ill-equipped" for the Premiership.
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Nikolai Tikhonov's resignation was made official at a Central Committee plenum in September 1985.
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Nikolai Tikhonov was active in Soviet politics, albeit in a much less prominent role, until 1989 when he lost his seat in the Central Committee.
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Nikolai Tikhonov died on 1 June 1997 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Nikolai Tikhonov, when compared to other Soviet premiers, has made little impact on post-Soviet culture and his legacy is remembered by few today.