Pyotr Demichev

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Pyotr Demichev
Пётр Демичев
First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
In office 18 June 1986 – 1 October 1988
President	Andrei Gromyko
Preceded by	Vasily Kuznetsov
Succeeded by	Anatoly Lukyanov
Minister of Culture
In office 14 November 1974 – 18 June 1986
Premier	Alexei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Ekaterina Furtseva
Succeeded by	Vasily Zakharov
Personal details
Born	(1918-01-03)3 January 1918 [O.S. 21 December 1917] Kirov, Kaluga Oblast, Soviet Russia
Died	10 August 2010(2010-08-10) (aged 92) Zhavoronki, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation
Nationality	Soviet (1917–1991), Russian (1991–2010)
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1939–1991)
Profession	Civil servant
Central institution membership 1961–1974: Member of the 22nd, 23rd & 24th Secretariat 1964–1988: Candidate member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th Politburo 1959–1961: Member of the Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee for the Russian SFSR Other political offices held 1945–1950: Head of department, secretary of the Soviet District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks of Moscow 1950–1952: Deputy Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks 1956–1958: Secretary of the Moscow Regional Party Committee 1959–1960: First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Party Committee 1958–1959: Administrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers 1960–1962: First Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee

Pyotr Nilovich Demichev (Russian: Пётр Ни́лович Де́мичев; 3 January 1918 [O.S. 21 December 1917] – 10 August 2010) was a Soviet politician. He was deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of Culture from 1974 to 1986.^[1] He was a deputy Politburo member from 1964 until his retirement in 1988. He was considered to be a "Communist Party ideologist" with little sympathy for liberal movements within the Soviet Union.^[2]