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Alexsei Nikolayevich Kosygin (
Aleksej Nikolajevič Kosygin;
February 20 1904 -
December 18,
1980) was a
Soviet politician and administrator. He served as
Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980.
Biography
Kosygin joined the
Red Army in
1919 at the age of 15 and fought in the
Russian Civil War. Afterwards, he received his education at the
Leningrad Co-operative College and then worked in
Siberia joining the
Communist Party in 1927. In the 1930s he attended the
Leningrad Textile Institute after which he worked as an engineer rising to become managing director of the Oktyabrskaya textile factory in
Leningrad.
Stalin's
Great Purge caused a number of openings in the party administration allowing Kosygin to enter full time party work in 1938 first as head of the Leningrad party's industrial and transport department and then as
mayor of Leningrad. In 1939 he joined the Soviet
cabinet as
People's Commissar for the textile industry. That same year, Kosygin was elected to the
Central Committee of the Communist Party. From 1940 to 1946 he was deputy chairman of the
Council of People's Commissars of the USSR with responsibility for consumer industries. He also served as
Premier of the
Russian SFSR from 1943 to 1946.
After
World War II, Kosygin became a candidate member of the
Politburo becoming a full member in 1948. He briefly served as minister of finance of the USSR in 1948 and then as minister for light industry until 1953.
Following the death of
Stalin in March 1953 Kosygin was demoted but as a staunch ally of
Nikita Khrushchev his career soon turned around. He became chairman of the USSR State Committee for Planning in 1959 and then a full member of the Presidium (as the Politburo was now called) in 1960. When Khrushchev was dismissed as Soviet leader in October 1964, Kosygin took over Khrushchev's position as Soviet Premier in what initially was a
troika with
Leonid Brezhnev as
General Secretary and
Anastas Mikoyan, and later
Nikolay Podgorny, as
Chairman of the Presidium.
Kosygin attempted to implement economic reforms to shift the emphasis in the Soviet economy from heavy industry and military production to light industry and the production of consumer goods. Brezhnev didn't support this policy and stymied Kosygin's reforms. By the end of the decade Brezhnev had become the unquestioned leader of the USSR. While Kosygin retained his position as Premier and remained on the Politburo until 1980 his position became increasingly weak.
Kosygin fell ill and voluntarily resigned as premier on
October 23,
1980. Although such resignations of Soviet leaders for "health reasons" were generally viewed as a euphemism for being dismissed, Kosygin died less than two months later.
He was married to Klavdia Andreyevna (died
May 1,
1967)
The name of Alexey Nikolayewitch Kosygin was given to the
Moscow State Textile Institution (After 1991 - Moscow State Textile Academy (MSTA) and after 1999 - Moscow State Textile University (MSTU A.N. Kosygin)). A street in the
Sparrow Hills area of
Moscow was given his name as well.
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