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...resigned as Premier of the U.S.S.R. In a letter to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, TASS reported, the 80-year-old Politburo member, who has held the premiership since 1980, declared that his health had "considerably deteriorated lately" and his doctors suggested retirement. Named to replace Tikhonov was Nikolai Ryzhkov, 56, a rapidly rising star who was appointed to the ruling Politburo only last April. He is its second-youngest member after Gorbachev...
...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...
...member of both the Central Committee Secretariat and the Politburo, Ryzhkov has been deeply involved in drafting the upcoming 1986-1991 Five-Year Plan. His latest promotion makes it clear that more than anyone else, he will be responsible for supervising Gorbachev's much awaited revival of the Soviet economy...
...late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was executed. Andropov fired several industrial ministers and began to appoint younger, more professional executives to senior posts. Andropov also set up a task force charged with streamlining the bureaucracy. It is thought to be headed by Central Committee Secretariat Member Nikolai Ryzhkov, a close associate of Gorbachev...
...Brezhnev. Politburo Newcomer Vitali Vorotnikov, 58, joined a number of younger leaders who appeared to owe their growing prominence to the ailing leader. They included former Azerbaijan Party Chief Geidar Aliyev, 60, who was the first Andropov appointee to the party's inner circle, and two technocrats, Nikolai Ryzhkov, 54, and Yegor Ligachev, 64, who were assigned to key posts in the Central Committee...