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- Birth nameNikolai Viktorovich Podgorny
- Nikolai Podgorny was born on February 18, 1903 in Karlovka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Karlivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]. He died on January 11, 1983 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- CPSU official.
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1965-1977).
- First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1957-1963).
- In 1931, Podgorny graduated from the Kyiv Technological Institute of Food Industry and started working in the sugar industry. Podgorny was promoted to deputy chief engineer of Vinnytsia in 1937 and was promoted in 1939 as the chief engineer of the Kamenetz-Podolsk Oblast sugar trusts.
- Podgorny's removal from office in 1977 has become the most notable example of power transfer in the late Brezhnev Era. According to Robert Vincent Daniels, Podgorny was, before his removal, the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union, behind Brezhnev but ahead of Premier Kosygin. Though there were some Sovietologists who foresaw Podgorny's fall, the decision to remove Podgorny from the Politburo took the world by surprise.
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