Alexander Shelepin

Alexander Shelepin
Alexander Shelepin
Александр Шелепин
	Shelepin in 1966
Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
	In office; 1967–1975
Preceded by	Viktor Grishin
Succeeded by	Alexey Shibaev
Chairman of the Party and State Control Committee
	In office; 23 November 1962 – 6 December 1965
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
2nd Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB)
	In office; 25 December 1958 – 13 November 1961
Premier	Nikita Khrushchev
Preceded by	Ivan Serov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Semichastny
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
	In office; 23 November 1962 – 9 December 1965
Premier	Alexei Kosygin
Preceded by	Mikhail Yefremov
Succeeded by	Zia Nureyev
First Secretary of the Komsomol
	In office; 30 October 1952 – 28 March 1958
Preceded by	Nikolai Mikhailov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Semichastny
Full member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th Politburo
	In office; 16 November 1964 – 16 April 1975
Member of the 22nd, 23rd Secretariat
	In office; 31 October 1961 – 26 September 1967
Personal details
Born	Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin; 18 August 1918; Voronezh, Soviet Russia
Died	24 October 1994 (aged 76); Moscow, Russian Federation
Citizenship	Soviet (until 1991) and Russian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940-1984)
Alma mater	Moscow State University (1941)
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Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Шеле́пин; 18 August 1918 – 24 October 1994) was a Soviet politician and intelligence officer. A long-time member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister, as a full member of the Politburo and as the chairman of the KGB from December 1958 to November 1961. He continued to maintain decisive influence in the KGB until 1967; his successor as chairman of the KGB, Vladimir Semichastny, was his client and protégé.^[1]

Intelligent, ambitious, and well-educated,^[2]^[1] Shelepin was the leader of a hard-line faction within the Communist Party that played a decisive role in overthrowing Nikita Khrushchev in 1964. Opposed to the policy of détente, he was eventually outmaneuvered by Leonid Brezhnev and gradually stripped of his power, thus failing in his ambition to lead the Soviet Union.

^ ^a ^b Martin McCauley, Who's Who in Russia since 1900, page 184, Routledge, 1997
^ Aleksandr Nikolaevich Shelepin, Oxford Dictionary of Political Biography

[McCauley-1] Martin McCauley, Who's Who in Russia since 1900, page 184, Routledge, 1997

[Oxford-2] Aleksandr Nikolaevich Shelepin, Oxford Dictionary of Political Biography

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