Nikolai Podgorny
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Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977.
Official portrait, 1973
Nikolai Podgorny (second from left) at East Germany's 6th Party Conference with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (second from right) in 1963.
Podgorny visiting Tampere, Finland in 1969
In his capacity as head of state, Podgorny (seated right) meets French President Charles de Gaulle (seated left) in Moscow.
Anastas Mikoyan
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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union. As a m
Nikolai Podgorny
…Triumvirate (also known by its Russian name Troika) alongside Premier Alexei Kosygin and First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. On 6 December 1965, he replaced Anastas Mikoyan as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. After Kosygin's standing was damaged in the wake of the Prague Spring crisis in 1968, Podgorny…
Mikoyan in 1950
Sanahin, Mikoyan's native village, in the Debed River valley of Armenia
1925 Soviet poster: "We will never forget the 26 murdered by English imperialists. 1918, September 20."
The Caucasus trio in 1925. From left to right: Mikoyan, Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze