Nikolai Tikhonov

Nikolai Tikhonov
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	(1905-05-14)14 May 1905 Kharkiv, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1 June 1997(1997-06-01) (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.