Ivan Arkhipov

Ivan Arkhipov
Иван Архипов
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office
27 October 1980 – 4 October 1986
PremierNikolai Tikhonov
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded byNikolai Tikhonov
Succeeded byHeydar Aliyev
Personal details
Born(1907-04-18)18 April 1907
Kaluga, Russian Empire
Died28 February 1998(1998-02-28) (aged 90)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian/Soviet/Russian
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1928–1989)

Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov (Russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич Архи́пов; 18 April [O.S. 1 May] 1907 – 28 February 1998) was a Soviet and Russian statesman who was First Deputy of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1986.

In 1950 Stalin sent him as an economic adviser to China, where he spent much of the next 10 years.[1]

  1. ^ Gewirtz, Julian (2017). Unlikely Partners : Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China. Harvard University Press. p. 128. ISBN 9780674971134.