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Boris Ponomarev | |
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Борис Пономарёв | |
Head of the International Department of the Central Committee | |
In office 21 February 1957 – 25 February 1986 | |
Preceded by | Post established (himself as Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties head) |
Succeeded by | Anatoly Dobrynin |
Head of the Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties of the Central Committee | |
In office 9 December 1955 – 21 February 1957 | |
Preceded by | Mikhail Suslov |
Succeeded by | Post abolished (himself as International Department head and Yuri Andropov as Department for Relations with the Communist and Workers' Parties of the Socialist Countries head) |
Candidate member of the 24th, 25th, 26th Politburo | |
In office 19 May 1972 – 25 February 1986 | |
Member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th Secretariat | |
In office 31 October 1961 – 25 February 1985 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Zaraysk, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire | 17 January 1905
Died | 21 December 1995 Moscow, Russia | (aged 90)
Citizenship | Soviet |
Nationality | Russian |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1919–1991) |
Residence | Kutuzovsky Prospekt |
Profession | Politician, historian |
Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Пономарёв; 17 January 1905 – 21 December 1995) was a Soviet politician, ideologist, historian and member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His patron in his rise to the Politburo was Mikhail Suslov.
His name would more accurately be transliterated as "Ponomaryov," though the form "Ponomarev" has become more frequent.