Yegor Ligachev
| Yegor Ligachyov Его́р Лигачёв |
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| Head of the Organizational-Party Work Department of the Central Committee | |
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In office 29 April 1983 – 23 April 1985 |
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| Preceded by | Ivan Kapitonov |
| Succeeded by | Georgy Razumovsky |
| First Secretary of the Tomsk Regional Committee | |
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In office 26 November 1965 – 29 April 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Ivan Marchenko |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Melnikov |
| Full member of the 26th, 27th Politburo | |
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In office 23 April 1985 – 14 July 1990 |
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| Member of the 26th, 27th Secretariat | |
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In office 26 December 1983 – 14 July 1990 |
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| Member of the 26th, 27th Central Committee | |
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In office 3 March 1981 – 14 July 1990 |
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| Personal details | |
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29 November 1920 Dubinkino, Russian SFSR |
| Nationality | Soviet and Russian |
| Political party |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union Communist Party of the Russian Federation |
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachyov (also transliterated as Ligachev; Russian: Его́р Кузьми́ч Лигачёв; born 29 November 1920) is a Soviet politician who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Originally a protégé of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ligachyov became a challenger to his leadership.
Ligachyov was born on 29 November 1920 in a village called Dubinkino (now the Chulymsky District) in the Novosibirsk Oblast. Between 1938 and 1943 he attended the Ordzhonikidze Institute for Aviation in Moscow and attained a technical engineering degree. Ligachyov joined the Communist Party at the age of 24 in 1944, later studying at the Higher Party School in 1951.
Ligachyov's career began in his native Siberia and took him to some of the highest functions of the Party. He was often regarded as Gorbachev's second man, holding important posts such as Secretary for Ideology. However, Ligachyov lost his posts in 1990, a year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, resigning from his political career at the 28th Party Congress. Ligachyov was critical of Yeltsin and Gorbachev to an extent, although he is often held as most remarkable for being Gorbachev's primary critic.
Ligachyov was First Secretary of the Novosibirsk Komsomol, before becoming Deputy Chairman of the Novosibirsk Soviet, and then Secretary of the Novosibirsk Obkom between 1959 and 1961.
Ligachyov's first major post was attained in 1961, when he began working in the CPSU Central Committee. In 1965, he became First Secretary of the Party in Tomsk, Siberia. During his time there he led the cover-up of the Stalin-era mass grave at Kolpashevo. He was to hold this position until 1983, when he was discovered by Yuri Andropov and made head of the Party Organization Department and a Secretary of the Central Committee.
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