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Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov

premier of Soviet Union
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Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov (born May 1 [May 14, New Style], 1905, Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]—died June 1, 1997, Moscow, Russia) was the premier of the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1985, a staunch Communist Party member closely associated with the former Soviet president and Communist Party chairman Leonid Brezhnev. Born into a middle-class Ukrainian family, Tikhonov graduated from the Metallurgical Institute in Dnepropetrovsk in 1930 and later went to work for the...

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