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Lev Voronin

Lev Voronin
Лев Воронин
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Permanent Representative of the USSR to the European Community
In office
March 1991 – September 1991
Premier Valentin Pavlov
Preceded by Vladimir Shemyatenkov
Succeeded by Ivan Silayev
(for the Russian Federation)
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office
17 July 1989 – 26 December 1990
Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by Yuri Maslyukov
Succeeded by Vladilen Niktin
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office
15 November 1985 – 7 June 1989
Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by Ivan Silayev
Succeeded by Yuri Maslyukov
Personal details
Born (1928-02-22)22 February 1928
Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died 24 June 2008(2008-06-24) (aged 80)
Moscow, Russian Federation
Nationality Soviet/Russian
Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Lev Alekseyevich Voronin (Russian: Лев Алексеевич Воронин; 22 February 1928 – 24 June 2008) was a Soviet Russian official. He served as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally the Vice-Premier of the Soviet Union, from 1989 to 1990. Responsible for the "general issues" of the cultural and economic administration of the Soviet Union during the late Gorbachev Era, Voronin became acting Chairman of the Council of Ministers in between Nikolai Ryzhkov's hospitalisation and Valentin Pavlov's election as Prime Minister. Voronin worked as a banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Voronin was born on 22 February 1928 in the city of Perm, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. He graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Ural Polytechnic Institute in 1949. In 1953 Voronin became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

Voronin, along with the six other Deputy Premiers, had a career background in the Soviet military-industrial complex. He started working at an industrial plant in Sverdlovsk in 1949 as a common worker and eventually became the plant's manager. From 1959 to 1963 Voronin was a chief engineer in a plant located in the Kamensk-Ural Sverdlovsk region, and from 1963 he started to work as a chief engineer for a plant in the Urals for the Sverdlovsk Supreme Soviet of the National Economy. Later that year Voronin was appointed to the post of head of the radio and electronics industries.


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