Alexei Kosygin
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Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1964 to 1980. Following Nikita Khrushchev's removal from power, he briefly led the Soviet
Kosygin in 1966
Kosygin as People's Commissar, 1939
Kosygin c. 1951
The House on the Embankment was a building completed in 1931 to house the government elite; Kosygin lived there.
Nikolai Tikhonov
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov 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
Alexei Kosygin
…government's economic involvement by enhancing the duties and responsibilities of the ministries. Due to Kosygin's resignation in 1980, and because of Nikolai Tikhonov's conservative approach to economics, very little of the reform was actually implemented. By the early to mid-1970s Brezhnev had established a strong…
Tikhonov in 1981
Tikhonov (center) with Konstantin Chernenko (left) and Yuri Andropov in 1983