Nikolai Tikhonov | |
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Николай Тихонов | |
| 9th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 23 October 1980 – 27 September 1985 | |
| First Deputies | Ivan Arkhipov Heydar Aliyev Andrei Gromyko |
| Preceded by | Alexei Kosygin |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Ryzhkov |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 2 September 1976 – 23 October 1980 | |
| Premier | Alexei Kosygin |
| Preceded by | Dmitry Polyansky |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Arkhipov |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 2 October 1965 – 2 September 1976 | |
| Premier | Alexei Kosygin |
| Deputy Chairman of the State Economic Commission on Current Planning | |
| In office 1963–1965 | |
| Leader | Pyotr Lomako |
| Full member of the 25th, 26th, 27th Politburo | |
| In office 27 November 1979 – 15 October 1985 | |
| Candidate member of the 25th Politburo | |
| In office 27 November 1978 – 27 November 1979 | |
| Full member of the 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th Central Committee | |
| In office 1966–1989 | |
| Candidate member of the 22nd Central Committee | |
| In office 1961–1966 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 May 1905 Kharkiv, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1 June 1997 (aged 92) Moscow, Russia |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
| Citizenship | Soviet and Russian |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940–1989) |
| Alma mater | Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute |
| Profession | Metallurgist |
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov (Russian: Николай Александрович Тихонов; Ukrainian: Микола Олександрович Тихонов; 14 May [O.S. 1 May] 1905 – 1 June 1997) was a Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1985, and as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally First Vice Premier, from 1976 to 1980. Tikhonov was responsible for the cultural and economic administration of the Soviet Union during the late era of stagnation. He was replaced as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1985 by Nikolai Ryzhkov. In the same year, he lost his seat in the Politburo; however, he retained his seat in the Central Committee until 1989.
He was born in the city of Kharkiv in 1905 to a Russian-Ukrainian working-class family; he graduated in the 1920s and started working in the 1930s. Tikhonov began his political career in local industry, and worked his way up the hierarchy of Soviet industrial ministries. He was appointed deputy chairman of the Gosplan in 1963. After Alexei Kosygin's resignation Tikhonov was voted into office as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In this position, he refrained from taking effective measures to reform the Soviet economy, a need which was strongly evidenced during the early–mid-1980s. He retired from active politics in 1989 as a pensioner. Tikhonov died on 1 June 1997.