Lev Voronin

Lev Voronin
Лев Воронин
Permanent Representative of the USSR to the European Community
In office March 1991 – September 1991
Premier	Valentin Pavlov
Preceded by	Vladimir Shemyatenkov
Succeeded by	Ivan Silayev (for the Russian Federation)
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office 17 July 1989 – 26 December 1990
Premier	Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Yuri Maslyukov
Succeeded by	Vladilen Niktin
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office 15 November 1985 – 7 June 1989
Premier	Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Ivan Silayev
Succeeded by	Yuri Maslyukov
Personal details
Born	(1928-02-22)22 February 1928 Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	24 June 2008(2008-06-24) (aged 80) Moscow, Russian Federation
Nationality	Soviet/Russian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953–1991)

Lev Alekseyevich Voronin (Russian: Лев Алексеевич Воронин; 22 February 1928 – 24 June 2008)^[1] was a Soviet and Russian official. He served as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally the Vice-Premier of the Soviet Union, from 1989 to 1990. Responsible for the "general issues" of the cultural and economic administration of the Soviet Union during the late Gorbachev Era, Voronin became acting Chairman of the Council of Ministers in between Nikolai Ryzhkov's hospitalization and Valentin Pavlov's election as Prime Minister. Voronin worked as a banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.