Grigory Romanov
| Grigory Romanov Григорий Романов |
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| First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee | |
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In office 16 September 1970 – 24 June 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Vasily Tolstikov |
| Succeeded by | Lev Zaykov |
| Full member of the 25th, 26th Politburo | |
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In office 5 March 1976 – 6 March 1986 |
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| Member of the 26th Secretariat | |
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In office 15 June 1983 – 6 March 1986 |
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7 February 1923 Zikhnovo, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 3 June 2008 (aged 85) Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Nationality | Soviet and Russian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov (Russian: Григорий Васильевич Романов, scientific transliteration: Grigorij Vasil'evič Romanov; 7 February 1923 – 3 June 2008) was a Soviet politician and member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the CPSU. In 1985, he was considered Mikhail Gorbachev's main rival in the succession struggle after the death of Konstantin Chernenko in March 1985.
Grigory Vasilyevich was born in Novgorod Oblast into a Russian peasant family.
A soldier in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War, Romanov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1944. Romanov graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute in 1953, and became a designer in a shipyard. He fulfilled several important posts in the party committee of the enterprise he was working at and later in the Leningrad city and regional party committees. In September 1970 he was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of the Leningrad Region. In this position he gained a reputation of being a good organizer and well versed in economic matters, winning defense investment for Leningrad. He was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the XXIVth congress of the CPSU in 1971. He became a candidate member of the Central Committee's Politburo in 1973 and a full member in 1976. In 1977 he initiated a successful vote to remove Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Nikolai Podgorny from the Politburo.
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