Viktor Grishin

Viktor Grishin
Виктор Гришин
First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party
In office
27 June 1967 – 24 December 1985
Preceded byNikolai Yegorychev
Succeeded byBoris Yeltsin
Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
In office
17 March 1956 – 11 July 1967
Preceded byNikolai Shvernik
Succeeded byAlexander Shelepin
Full member of the 24th, 25th, 26th Politburo
In office
9 April 1971 – 18 February 1986
Candidate member of the 22nd, 23rd Politburo
In office
31 October 1961 – 9 April 1971
Full member of the 19th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th Central Committee
In office
16 October 1952 – 6 March 1986
Personal details
Born
Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin

18 September [O.S. 5 September] 1914
Serpukhov, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
Died25 May 1992(1992-05-25) (aged 77)
Moscow, Russia
NationalitySoviet
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1939–1986)

Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin (Russian: Ви́ктор Васи́льевич Гри́шин; 18 September [O.S. 5 September] 1914 – 25 May 1992) was a Soviet politician. He was a candidate (1961–1971) and full member (1971–1986) of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.