Word: industrybelt
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...choosing Ryzhkov as Tikhonov's replacement, Gorbachev underlined his high regard for the former engineer who earned a reputation for efficiency as a manager of armaments factories in the Soviet heavy-industrybelt of the ! Urals. Transferred to Moscow's governing bureaucracy in 1975, Ryzhkov served from 1979 to 1982 as first deputy chairman of Gosplan, the state planning agency. He was then moved to the Central Committee Secretariat, the powerful body that effectively administers the Soviet Union. Prior to 1981 Ryzhkov had never held a Communist Party job. In April, Gorbachev promoted Ryzhkov to full Politburo status without the normal...
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