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(1906)" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%87_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%87)" title="اندريه كيريلينكو (رجل دوله من الامبراطوريه الروسيه) – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="اندريه كيريلينكو (رجل دوله من الامبراطوريه الروسيه)" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a 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font-weight:bold;"><div class="nickname" lang="ru"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">Андрей Кириленко</span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Kirilenko,_Andrei_Pavlovich.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/Kirilenko%2C_Andrei_Pavlovich.jpg/220px-Kirilenko%2C_Andrei_Pavlovich.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="305" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Kirilenko%2C_Andrei_Pavlovich.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="238" data-file-height="330" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Senior Secretary of Cadres</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />8 April 1966 – 5 March 1976</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Shelepin" title="Alexander Shelepin">Alexander Shelepin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">First Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Dnipropetrovsk_Regional_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine">Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 1950 – December 1955</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Shcherbytsky" title="Volodymyr Shcherbytsky">Volodymyr Shcherbytsky</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1906-09-08</span>)</span>8 September 1906<br /><a href="/wiki/Alexeyevka,_Belgorod_Oblast" title="Alexeyevka, Belgorod Oblast">Alexeyevka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Voronezh_Governorate" title="Voronezh Governorate">Voronezh Governorate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">12 May 1990<span style="display:none">(1990-05-12)</span> (aged 83)<br /><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian SFSR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a> (1930–1990)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Design_engineer" title="Design engineer">Design</a><sup id="cite_ref-warheroes_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warheroes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance" title="Aircraft maintenance">aircraft engineer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Electrician" title="Electrician">electrician</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaw1975214_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaw1975214-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Civil_servant" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil servant">civil servant</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; background-color:#FCF;text-align:center;"><div style="margin: 0 4em">Central institution membership</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1966–1982: Member of the <a href="/wiki/23rd_Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="23rd Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">23rd</a>, <a href="/wiki/24th_Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="24th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th</a>, <a href="/wiki/25th_Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="25th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th</a> & <a href="/wiki/26th_Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="26th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">26th</a> Secretariat </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1962–1982: Member of the <a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Presidium of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">22nd</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_23rd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">23rd</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th</a> & <a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_26th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">26th</a> Politburo </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1957–1961: Candidate member of the <a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_19th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">19th Politburo</a> </li></ul> </div> <hr /> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; background-color:#FCF;text-align:center;"><div style="margin: 0 4em">Other political offices held</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1947–1950: First Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Mykolaiv_Regional_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Mykolaiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine">Mykolaiv Regional Committee</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1955–1962: First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee </li></ul> </div> <hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Андрій Павлович Кириленко</span>; <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Андре́й Па́влович Кириле́нко</span>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[ɐnˈdrʲej<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ<span class="wrap"> </span>kʲɪrʲɪˈlʲɛnkə]</a></span>; 8 September [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> 26 August] 1906 – 12 May 1990) was a <a href="/wiki/Soviet_people" title="Soviet people">Soviet</a> politician, and a member of the <a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Secretariat</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a>. He was one of the most loyal politicians to <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a>. </p><p>His role in the CPSU was to ensure Brezhnev's power base and, if possible, to strengthen Brezhnev's position within the party. In order to accomplish this task, he emerged as one of the leading figures in the <a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Secretariat</a> under Brezhnev's rule. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Kirilenko_(politician)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Andrei Kirilenko was born on 8 September 1906 in the village of <a href="/wiki/Alexeyevka,_Belgorod_Oblast" title="Alexeyevka, Belgorod Oblast">Alexeyevka, Belgorod Oblast</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>, to a <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working-class</a> family.<sup id="cite_ref-warheroes_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warheroes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a young boy, he worked as an <a href="/wiki/Electrician" title="Electrician">electrician</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Locksmith" class="mw-redirect" title="Locksmith">locksmith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaw1975226_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaw1975226-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1920, Kirilenko graduated from one of the local schools; five years later, he graduated from the Alekseevskii vocational technical school. In the mid-to-late 1920s, Kirilenko started working for a mining <a href="/wiki/Enterprises_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Enterprises in the Soviet Union">enterprise</a> located in the <a href="/wiki/Voronezh_Oblast" title="Voronezh Oblast">Voronezh Oblast</a>. He became an active member of <a href="/wiki/Komsomol" title="Komsomol">Komsomol</a> in 1929 and, two years later, became a member of the <a href="/wiki/All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" class="mw-redirect" title="All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">All-Union Communist Party</a>. In 1936, he graduated from the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rybinsk_Aviation_Technology_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rybinsk Aviation Technology Institute (page does not exist)">Rybinsk Aviation Technology Institute</a>. He started working as a <a href="/wiki/Design_engineer" title="Design engineer">design engineer</a> for the aircraft factory, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zaporizhia_Engine_Plant&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zaporizhia Engine Plant (page does not exist)">Zaporizhia Engine Plant</a>. In 1938, Kirilenko became an active participant in party politics and was eventually selected to the position of Second Secretary of the Voroshilov District Party Committee in <a href="/wiki/Zaporozhye_Oblast" class="mw-redirect" title="Zaporozhye Oblast">Zaporozhye Oblast</a>. The following year, he was voted in as First Secretary. Later that year he was appointed to Second Secretary of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Party Committee of the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic">Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic</a>. In this role, Kirilenko made significant contributions to the development of <a href="/wiki/Metallurgical_engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Metallurgical engineering">metallurgical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering">electrical engineering</a>, but also other sorts of industry.<sup id="cite_ref-warheroes_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warheroes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Great Patriotic War</a>, Kirilenko was directly involved with evacuating industry to safe zones. From 1941 to 1943, he was a member of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Military_Soviet_of_the_18th_Army_of_the_Southern_Front&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Military Soviet of the 18th Army of the Southern Front (page does not exist)">Military Soviet of the 18th Army of the Southern Front</a>. He contributed by improving discipline among soldiers as well as improving the materiel support for the troops. In 1943, Kirilenko was relocated to <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, and during his stay there the production of advanced aircraft increased rapidly. By the end of the war, in 1944, Kirilenko was made First Secretary of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Party. He succeeded <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a>, future <a href="/wiki/Soviet_leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet leader">Soviet leader</a>, as First Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk" class="mw-redirect" title="Dnepropetrovsk">Dnepropetrovsk</a> Regional Party Committee. From 1955 to 1962, he was First Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast" title="Sverdlovsk Oblast">Sverdlovsk</a> Regional Party Committee;<sup id="cite_ref-warheroes_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warheroes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was appointed by <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> himself to take charge of <a href="/wiki/Planned_economy" title="Planned economy">economic planning</a> and personnel selection in urban areas of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic</a> (RSFSR). Kirilenko was later promoted to Khrushchev's vice-chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_the_Central_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Bureau of the Central Committee">Bureau of the Central Committee</a>. Brezhnev benefited from Kirilenko's position, Brezhnev used him to win over supporters of his conspiracy against Khrushchev.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHough199787_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHough199787-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Brezhnev_era">Brezhnev era</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Kirilenko_(politician)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Brezhnev era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rise_to_prominence">Rise to prominence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Kirilenko_(politician)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Rise to prominence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Immediately after Khrushchev's ouster, a "<a href="/wiki/Collective_leadership_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Collective leadership in the Soviet Union">collective leadership</a>" had been formed with Brezhnev as <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">First Secretary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Kosygin" title="Alexei Kosygin">Alexei Kosygin</a> as <a href="/wiki/List_of_Premiers_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Premiers of the Soviet Union">head of government</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anastas_Mikoyan" title="Anastas Mikoyan">Anastas Mikoyan</a> (replaced in 1965 by <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Podgorny" title="Nikolai Podgorny">Nikolai Podgorny</a>) as <a href="/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="List of heads of state of the Soviet Union">head of state</a>. Central Committee Secretaries <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Suslov" title="Mikhail Suslov">Mikhail Suslov</a> and Kirilenko were also a part of the collective leadership, with Kirilenko ranked fifth behind Brezhnev, Podgorny, Kosygin, and Suslov.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1962, Kirilenko became a voting <a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union_in_the_1960s" class="mw-redirect" title="List of members of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1960s">member of the Political Bureau</a> (Politburo).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaw1975227_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaw1975227-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1966, the Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSFSR was abolished, and Kirilenko became Brezhnev's chief lieutenant. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vadim_Medvedev&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vadim Medvedev (page does not exist)">Vadim Medvedev</a>, a Soviet official, said Kirilenko's chief concern was maintaining and strengthening Brezhnev's position within <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">the Party</a>. Men who were loyal to Brezhnev were also loyal to Kirilenko.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHough199787–88_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHough199787–88-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a>, another old Brezhnev <a href="/wiki/Prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Protégé">protégé</a>, became a "counterweight" to Kirilenko's power within the <a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Central Committee</a> (CC).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHough199787–88_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHough199787–88-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before Chernenko's rise in the Soviet hierarchy, Kirilenko provided detailed supervision of new party personnel and the economy. When Chernenko came on board in 1976, Kirilenko supervised the economy. By the mid-to-late 1970s, Kirilenko's health was beginning to decline, and his <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a> weakened.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHough199784_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHough199784-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite his failing health, he was still a high-standing member, and he usually presided over the meetings of the <a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Secretariat</a> when Suslov was not around.<sup id="cite_ref-warheroes_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warheroes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While <a href="/wiki/First_World" title="First World">First World</a> representatives treated Kirilenko as <a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Second Secretary of the Communist Party</a> because most of his duties had been associated with that office in the past, the position was actually held by Suslov.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During most of his term, Kirilenko was one of four who had both a seat in the secretariat and Politburo; the three others were Brezhnev, Suslov and <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Kulakov" title="Fyodor Kulakov">Fyodor Kulakov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELaw1975321_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELaw1975321-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1976 Kirilenko's position within the Soviet leadership had grown to such an extent that leading officials, such as Brezhnev and Suslov, were beginning to worry about his "organisational tail" in the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic</a> (RSFSR). His supervisory responsibilities led many of his colleagues to view him as a threat to the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Organisational_Work_Department_of_the_Central_Committee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Organisational Work Department of the Central Committee (page does not exist)">Party Organisational Work Department of the Central Committee</a> – the Central Committee department overseeing the civilian economy and the <a href="/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex" title="Military–industrial complex">military–industrial complex</a>. His position was weakened drastically by the end of the year, his weakened position did not lead to a strengthening of the Collective leadership but to the weakening of it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMitchell199040_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMitchell199040-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_career_and_resignation">Later career and resignation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Kirilenko_(politician)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Later career and resignation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As with Kosygin, Kirilenko's leading position in the Soviet leadership was in "limbo" due to his support for economic reform to countenance the country's stagnating economy.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kirilenko grew increasingly estranged with Brezhnev in 1977, some believe that it was due to the growing economic hardship that faced the Soviet Union. It is said that the two argued over resource allocation and on how to modernise the ailing economy. However, the most common explanation is that Kirilenko grew estranged was because of his weakened position within the Collective leadership.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMitchell199058_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMitchell199058-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kirilenko led the Soviet delegation to the December 1977 <a href="/wiki/MPLA" title="MPLA">MPLA</a> Party Congress. At this congress, MPLA officially subscribed to the doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Marxist-Leninism" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist-Leninism">Marxist-Leninism</a>. This congress was important to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, and Kirilenko compared <a href="/wiki/Angola" title="Angola">Angola</a>'s development with that of <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kirilenko, along with Premier Kosygin, had been one of the most vocal opponents to a <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet intervention</a> in <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Democratic Republic of Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>. He blamed <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan" title="People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan">the Afghan Party leadership</a> for the rebellion against them, claiming that the Soviets "gave them everything." He also disliked it when the Afghan leadership tried to justify their murderous actions on the grounds that <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a> also did it.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kirilenko was seen as a possible candidate for the post of <a href="/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="List of heads of state of the Soviet Union">First Deputy Chairman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_Supreme_Soviet" title="Presidium of the Supreme Soviet">Presidium of the Supreme Soviet</a> in 1977, however, First World observers tended to overrate the significance of the office, and because of it, their observation were completely off the mark. <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Kuznetsov_(politician)" title="Vasily Kuznetsov (politician)">Vasily Kuznetsov</a>, first deputy minister of foreign affairs, was chosen to the office of First Deputy Chairman instead.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMitchell199055–56_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMitchell199055–56-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During Brezhnev's later rule, <a href="/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a> chairman <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a> gradually took over the functions and, eventually, Kirilenko's position within the Soviet leadership.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHough199790_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHough199790-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1979, Kirilenko lost his unofficial office as supervisor of the defence industry over to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pavel_Finogenov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pavel Finogenov (page does not exist)">Pavel Finogenov</a>, a protégé of <a href="/wiki/Dmitriy_Ustinov" class="mw-redirect" title="Dmitriy Ustinov">Dmitriy Ustinov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMitchell199065–66_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMitchell199065–66-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kirilenko was seen as a key candidate by the West to replace Brezhnev as Soviet leader in 1982. After Brezhnev's death, Kirilenko was removed from the ruling Politburo by the new General Secretary Andropov.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With his deteriorating health, having a disease known as <a href="/wiki/Arteriosclerosis" title="Arteriosclerosis">arteriosclerosis</a>, Kirilenko was disabled from ensuing active politics or protecting himself from Andropov's attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After <a href="/wiki/Death_and_funeral_of_Leonid_Brezhnev" class="mw-redirect" title="Death and funeral of Leonid Brezhnev">Brezhnev's death and funeral</a>, Kirilenko's mental condition deteriorated to where he could not remember the names of several leading Politburo members. He was unable to write properly during his later life; when asked by Andropov to write a letter of resignation in 1982, he was unable to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The decision to remove Kirilenko was taken before Andropov rose to power, so in the event Brezhnev had died later, Kirilenko would still have been forced to resign.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reason for the decision was that Kirilenko's son had tried to <a href="/wiki/Defection" title="Defection">defect</a> to the United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMitchell199075_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMitchell199075-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life,_death,_and_recognition"><span id="Later_life.2C_death.2C_and_recognition"></span>Later life, death, and recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Kirilenko_(politician)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later life, death, and recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When compared to other Soviet politicians who shared the same fate, Kirilenko's downfall was, in the words of historian R. Judson Mitchell, a "relatively easy" fall from power. At <a href="/wiki/Death_and_funeral_of_Leonid_Brezhnev" class="mw-redirect" title="Death and funeral of Leonid Brezhnev">Brezhnev's lying-in-state and subsequent funeral</a>, he was allowed to stand besides Brezhnev's family even though he was not a member of the Soviet leadership at the time. Kirilenko made his last public appearance in 1983, and was given an honorary retirement the same year. Mitchell believes that Andropov gave Kirilenko the honorary retirement so that he could win over Kirilenko's "organisational tail", literally Kirilenko's appointees to top-ranking offices during his years in service.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMitchell199075_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMitchell199075-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He lived the rest of his life in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> and died on 12 May 1990 at age 83 and was buried at the <a href="/wiki/Troyekurovskoye_Cemetery" title="Troyekurovskoye Cemetery">Troyekurovskoye Cemetery</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Kirilenko_(politician)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During his lifetime, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Hero_of_Socialist_Labour" title="Hero of Socialist Labour">Hero of Socialist Labour</a> twice, and he received seven <a href="/wiki/Orders_of_Lenin" class="mw-redirect" title="Orders of Lenin">Orders of Lenin</a> and one <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_October_Revolution" title="Order of the October Revolution">Order of the October Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-warheroes_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warheroes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>USSR</dt></dl> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png/20px-Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="41" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png/30px-Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png/40px-Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png 2x" data-file-width="85" data-file-height="175" /></a></span><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png/20px-Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="41" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png/30px-Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png/40px-Hero_of_Socialist_Labor_medal.png 2x" data-file-width="85" data-file-height="175" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hero_of_Socialist_Labor" class="mw-redirect" title="Hero of Socialist Labor">Hero of Socialist Labor</a>, twice (1966, 1976) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_Lenin_ribbon_bar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Order_of_Lenin_ribbon_bar.png/60px-Order_of_Lenin_ribbon_bar.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Order_of_Lenin_ribbon_bar.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td>Seven <a href="/wiki/Orders_of_Lenin" class="mw-redirect" title="Orders of Lenin">Orders of Lenin</a> (1948, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1966, 1971, 1976) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_october_revolution_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Order_october_revolution_rib.png/60px-Order_october_revolution_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Order_october_revolution_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_October_Revolution" title="Order of the October Revolution">Order of the October Revolution</a> (1981) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SU_Order_of_the_Patriotic_War_2nd_class_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/SU_Order_of_the_Patriotic_War_2nd_class_ribbon.svg/60px-SU_Order_of_the_Patriotic_War_2nd_class_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/SU_Order_of_the_Patriotic_War_2nd_class_ribbon.svg/90px-SU_Order_of_the_Patriotic_War_2nd_class_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/SU_Order_of_the_Patriotic_War_2nd_class_ribbon.svg/120px-SU_Order_of_the_Patriotic_War_2nd_class_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="144" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Patriotic_War" title="Order of the Patriotic War">Order of the Patriotic War</a>, 2nd class (1985) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Defodessa.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Defodessa.png/60px-Defodessa.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Defodessa.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Defence_of_Odessa%22" title="Medal "For the Defence of Odessa"">Medal "For the Defence of Odessa"</a> (1942) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Defcaucasus_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Defcaucasus_rib.png/60px-Defcaucasus_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Defcaucasus_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Defence_of_the_Caucasus%22" title="Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"">Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"</a> (1944) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_Glory_Ribbon_Bar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Order_of_Glory_Ribbon_Bar.png/60px-Order_of_Glory_Ribbon_Bar.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Order_of_Glory_Ribbon_Bar.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Victory_over_Germany_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941%E2%80%931945%22" title="Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"">Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"</a> (1945) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:RibbonLabourDuringWar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/RibbonLabourDuringWar.png/60px-RibbonLabourDuringWar.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/RibbonLabourDuringWar.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_Valiant_Labour_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941%E2%80%931945%22" title="Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"">Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"</a> (1945) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Outstanding_achievements_labor.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Outstanding_achievements_labor.png/60px-Outstanding_achievements_labor.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Outstanding_achievements_labor.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_Labour_Valour%22" title="Medal "For Labour Valour"">Medal "For Labour Valour"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GuardRibbon.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/GuardRibbon.png/60px-GuardRibbon.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/GuardRibbon.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_Distinction_in_Guarding_the_State_Border_of_the_USSR%22" title="Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"">Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:100_lenin_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/100_lenin_rib.png/60px-100_lenin_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/100_lenin_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jubilee_Medal_%22In_Commemoration_of_the_100th_Anniversary_of_the_Birth_of_Vladimir_Ilyich_Lenin%22" title="Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"">Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"</a> (1969) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:VeteranLaborRibbon.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/VeteranLaborRibbon.png/60px-VeteranLaborRibbon.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/VeteranLaborRibbon.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22Veteran_of_Labour%22" title="Medal "Veteran of Labour"">Medal "Veteran of Labour"</a> (1974) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DonbassRibbon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/DonbassRibbon.jpg/60px-DonbassRibbon.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/DonbassRibbon.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Restoration_of_the_Donbas_Coal_Mines%22" title="Medal "For the Restoration of the Donbas Coal Mines"">Medal "For the Restoration of the Donbas Coal Mines"</a> (1947) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:RestorationOfTheBlackMetallurgicEnterprisesRibbon.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/RestorationOfTheBlackMetallurgicEnterprisesRibbon.gif/60px-RestorationOfTheBlackMetallurgicEnterprisesRibbon.gif" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/RestorationOfTheBlackMetallurgicEnterprisesRibbon.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Restoration_of_the_Black_Metallurgy_Enterprises_of_the_South%22" title="Medal "For the Restoration of the Black Metallurgy Enterprises of the South"">Medal "For the Restoration of the Black Metallurgy Enterprises of the South"</a> (1948) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <dl><dt>Foreign</dt></dl> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_%E2%80%9E%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%E2%80%9C.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_%E2%80%9E%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%E2%80%9C.gif/60px-%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_%E2%80%9E%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%E2%80%9C.gif" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_%E2%80%9E%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%E2%80%9C.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Georgi_Dimitrov" title="Order of Georgi Dimitrov">Order of Georgi Dimitrov</a> (<a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria" title="People's Republic of Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cs2okg.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Cs2okg.png/60px-Cs2okg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Cs2okg.png/90px-Cs2okg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Cs2okg.png 2x" data-file-width="114" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Klement_Gottwald" title="Order of Klement Gottwald">Order of Klement Gottwald</a> (<a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Kirilenko_(politician)&action=edit&section=7" 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Demichev" title="Pyotr Demichev">Pyotr Demichev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Grishin" title="Viktor Grishin">Viktor Grishin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasil_Mzhavanadze" title="Vasil Mzhavanadze">Vasil Mzhavanadze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharof_Rashidov" title="Sharof Rashidov">Sharof Rashidov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Ustinov" title="Dmitry Ustinov">Dmitry Ustinov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Shcherbytsky" title="Volodymyr Shcherbytsky">Volodymyr Shcherbytsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinmukhamed_Kunaev" title="Dinmukhamed Kunaev">Dinmukhamed Kunaev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Masherov" title="Pyotr Masherov">Pyotr Masherov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Pyotr_Demichev" title="Pyotr Demichev">Pyotr Demichev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Ustinov" title="Dmitry Ustinov">Dmitry Ustinov</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="20th_Presidium_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1956–1959)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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Pervukhin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maksim_Saburov" title="Maksim Saburov">Maksim Saburov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Suslov" title="Mikhail Suslov">Mikhail Suslov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Averky_Aristov" title="Averky Aristov">Averky Aristov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Belyaev_(politician)" title="Nikolai Belyaev (politician)">Nikolai Belyaev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov" title="Georgy Zhukov">Georgy Zhukov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Ignatov" title="Nikolai Ignatov">Nikolai Ignatov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frol_Kozlov" title="Frol Kozlov">Frol Kozlov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_Wille_Kuusinen" title="Otto Wille Kuusinen">Otto Kuusinen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yekaterina_Furtseva" title="Yekaterina Furtseva">Yekaterina Furtseva</a></li> <li><a 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