Word: dolgikh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alternate members of the Politburo also lost their posts: Vladimir I. Dolgikh and Pyotr N. Demichev...
...Dolgikh, 63, and retiring Politburo member Solomentsev were considered experts in heavy industry, and their retirement may indicate dissatisfaction with efforts to increase efficiency in that key area of the economy...
Brezhnev rites suggests, Andropov could conceivably fill as many as four seats with his own supporters. He may enlist some "younger" recruits among the nine nonvoting members of the Politburo, including Heavy Industry Specialist Vladimir Dolgikh, 57, and Cultural Watchdog Pyotr Demichev...
...ethnic Russian, Dolgikh was born in Ilansky, a Trans-Siberian railway town about 2,000 miles east of Moscow. He is thought to be the son of a former senior official in the Ministry of the Interior. After brief service with the Red Army in World War II, he earned a scientific degree from the Mining and Metallurgy Institute in Irkutsk. Sent to the mining-smelting plant in the northern Siberian city of Norilsk in 1958, he won high marks in the Kremlin for his skill in coordinating industrial development in the severe Arctic environment. Dolgikh was appointed party boss...
...Dolgikh, who seems to have taken on the job of overseeing development of West Siberia's extensive oilfields, has been cast as a man who might be able to improve the struggling Soviet economy. But his relative youth could keep him from being given the chance for some time...