Died 1983-01-11.
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Mykola Pidhornyi
Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977.
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politics · Soviet Ukrainian politician (1903–1983) · statesperson · engineer · politician · also Mykola Pidhornyi, Nikolai Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Pidhornyi
Born 5 February 1903 · Died 11 January 1983 · Q295781
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1977· 1 entry
Has become the most notable example of power transfer in the late Brezhnev Era
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1973· 3 entries
Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1973).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1973).
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Podgorny visited Finland and Mohammad Daoud Khan's Afghanistan
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1971· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1971).
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The 24th Party Congress affirmed Brezhnev's and Kosygin's status as the leadership's current highest-ranking figures but Podgorny nevertheless showed that he remained a major player in Soviet politics by leading delegati
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Podgorny went on two state visits, the first to the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the second to North Vietnam; Kosygin went on a visit to Canada while Brezhnev visited Yugoslavia
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the White Lion (1970).
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Podgorny emerged as the second-most powerful figure in the country behind Brezhnev
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1967· 1 entry
Just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, Podgorny delivered an intelligence report to Egyptian Vice President Anwar Sadat which claimed, falsely, that Israeli troops were massing along the Syrian border
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1965· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1965–1977).
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1963).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
Podgorny reported to Khrushchev that agricultural output had again increased: Under Podgorny's leadership, the Ukrainian SSR had doubled Ukraine's supply of grain to the state from the previous year
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1961· 1 entry
When he blamed bad corn yields in the Ukrainian SSR on "bad weather", while Khrushchev claimed the crops had been "stolen" and "pilfered"
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1960· 2 entries
Podgorny became a member of the Politburo (Political Bureau), the highest policy-making authority in the Soviet Union
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Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1960–1977).
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1959· 1 entry
Won Medal "For Labour Valour" (1959).
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1958).
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Career landmark: Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1958–1960).
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1957).
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Career landmark: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1957–1963).
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1954· 1 entry
Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1954–1977).
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1953· 1 entry
Podgorny was elevated to Second Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the CPU
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1948).
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1947· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1947–1967).
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1946· 1 entry
As a Permanent Representative to the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR
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1937· 1 entry
And was promoted in 1939 as the chief engineer of the Kamenetz-Podolsk Oblast sugar trusts
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1931· 2 entries
Studied at National University of Food Technologies (1931).
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Podgorny graduated from the Kiev Technological Institute of Food Industry and started working in the sugar industry
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1930· 2 entries
Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union and climbed up the Soviet hierarchy after years of service to the country's centrally planned economy
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Podgorny became a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the ruling party of the Soviet Union
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1926· 2 entries
Podgorny graduated from a local workers' school
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Before completing his education at the Kiev Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931
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1917· 1 entry
Podgorny became one of the founders of the Karlovka branch of the Komsomol, and served as a Secretary of the Komsomol from 1921 to 1923
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-02-05.
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