Mikhail Solomentsev

Mikhail Solomentsev Михаи́л Соло́менцев
Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Government of the Russian SFSR
In office 28 July 1971 – 24 June 1983
Premier	Alexei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov
Preceded by	Gennady Voronov
Succeeded by	Vitaly Vorotnikov
Personal details
Born	7 November 1913(1913-11-07) Eletskii District, Imperial Russia
Died	15 February 2008(2008-02-15) (aged 94) Moscow, Russian Federation
Nationality	Soviet, Russian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Соло́менцев; 7 November 1913 – 15 February 2008) was a high-ranking Soviet politician. He was born near Yelets and graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute in 1940. Solomentsev was a leading Communist party functionary in Kazakhstan in 1962–1964 and was in charge of the Rostov-on-Don obkom in 1964–1966. He served as a secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union over the years 1966–1971. Solomontsev was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian RSFR starting from 1971 and ending in 1983. He sat in the Politburo from 1983 until he was sacked by Mikhail Gorbachev five years later.

References

• Martin McCauley, Who's Who in Russia Since 1900, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0415138981; pp. 194-195

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Name	Solomentsev, Mikhail
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Short description
Date of birth	7 November 1913
Place of birth	Eletskii District, Imperial Russia
Date of death	15 February 2008
Place of death	Moscow, Russian Federation