General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1982-84); Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1983-84). Born on June 15, 1914, in Nagutskaya in Stavropol border area, to a Russian railway staff family. He graduated from Water Transport Technical School in 1936, and then served as a member of the Communist Youth League organization in Rybinsk shipyard. In 1937, he was Secretary of the Yaroslavl State Committee of the Communist Youth League. In 1938, he was elected First Secretary of the Yaroslavl Regional Committee of the Communist Youth League. During this period, he studied at Petrozavodsk University and the central senior Party School of the Communist Party (Bolshevik). He joined the Communist Party in 1939. From 1940 to 1944, he was the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of Karelia Finland. From 1944 to 1947, he was the Second Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Karelia–Petrozavodsk of the Finnish Communist Party, and from 1947 to 1951, he was the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Karelo- Finnish Communist Party. From 1950 to 1954, he served as the third Supreme Soviet representative of the Soviet Union. From 1951 to 1953, he was appointed an inspector and then the head of a sub-department of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee. From 1953 to 1957, he successively served as Counselor and then Soviet Ambassador to Hungary and participated in the handling of Hungarian events.
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