Nationality Soviet Resigned June 18, 1986 Succeeded by Pyotr Demichev | Role Russian Politician Name Vasili Kuznetsov | |
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President Leonid Brezhnev
Yuri Andropov
Konstantin Chernenko
Andrei Gromyko Preceded by None — post established Born 13 February 1901
Sofilovka, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire ( 1901-02-13 ) Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union Died June 5, 1990, Moscow, Russia Party Communist Party of the Soviet Union Similar People Arvids Pelse, Yuri Andropov, Yegor Ligachyov, Johannes Kabin, Vladimir Ivashko | ||
Resting place Novodevichy Cemetery | ||
Vasili Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Василий Васильевич Кузнецов; 13 February [O.S. 31 January] 1901 – 5 June 1990) was a Russian Soviet politician who acting as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1983, for a second time in 1984, and for a third time in 1985.
Kuznetsov was born in Sofilovka, Kostroma Governorate. He joined the Communist Party in May 1927. He took a break from his engineering education when he went to the United States to study metal processing at Carnegie Mellon University from 1931 to 1933.
Kuznetsov held a variety of government and Communist Party positions beginning in 1940. He was Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities from 12 March 1946 to 12 March 1950. In 1955 he became First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 7 October 1977 he was elected as First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a position he held until 18 June 1986. Upon the deaths of Leonid Brezhnev (1982), Yuri Andropov (1984) and Konstantin Chernenko (1985), Kuznetsov became acting chairman of the Presidium until the election of a successor.
He retired in 1986 and died in Moscow on 5 June 1990.