What key details about alexei kosygin can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: alexei nikolayevich kosygin -lrb- ; -- 18 december 1980 -rrb- was a soviet-russian statesman during the cold war . kosygin was born in the city of st. petersburg in 1904 to a russian working-class family . he was conscripted into the labour army during the russian civil war , and after the red army 's demobilisation in 1921 , he worked in siberia as an industrial manager . kosygin returned to leningrad in the early 1930s and worked his way up the soviet hierarchy . during the great patriotic war -lrb- world war ii -rrb- , kosygin was a member of the state defence committee and was tasked with moving soviet industry out of territories soon to be overrun by the german military . he served as minister of finance for a year before becoming minister of light industry and later , the minister of light and food industry . stalin removed kosygin from the politburo one year before his own death in 1953 , intentionally weakening kosygin 's position within the soviet hierarchy . after the power struggle triggered by stalin 's death in 1953 , nikita khrushchev became the new leader . on 20 march 1959 , kosygin was appointed to the position of chairman of the state planning committee -lrb- gosplan -rrb- , a post he would hold for little more than a year . kosygin next became first deputy chairman of the council of ministers . when khrushchev was replaced in 1964 , kosygin and leonid brezhnev became premier and first secretary respectively . kosygin , along with brezhnev and nikolai podgorny , the chairman of the presidium of the supreme soviet , was a member of the newly established collective leadership . kosygin became one of two major power players within the soviet hierarchy , the other being brezhnev , and was able to initiate the failed 1965 economic reform , usually referred to simply as the kosygin reform . this reform , along with his more open stance on solving the prague spring -lrb- 1968 -rrb- , made kosygin one of the most liberal members of the top leadership . more conservative members of the top leadership...
- party is communist party of the soviet union- deputy is first nikolai tikhonov deputy premiers dmitriy ustinov kirill mazurov dmitry polyansky- predecessor is nikita khrushchev frol kozlov joseph kuzmin ivan khokhlov- commands is red army- birth date is 20 february 1904- branch is red army- birthname is alexei nikolayevich kosygin- profession is teacher , civil servant law 1975 214- caption is kosygin 1967 at the glassboro summit conference , 23 june- death date is 18 december 1980- spouse is klavdia andreyevna -lrb- died 1967 -rrb-- office is chairman of the council of ministers chairman of the state planning of committee chairman of the council of people 's commissars of the the russian sfsr full member of the 18th , 22nd council , 23rd , 24th , 25th politburo candidate member of of the 18th , 19th , 20th politburo ministers first deputy chairman- term end is 23 23 march 1946 21 october 1980 16 october 1952 4 october may 1960 5 march 1953 4 september 1948 1980 15 october 1964 4 may 1960- serviceyears is 1919 -- 1921- name is alexei kosygin - premier is nikita khrushchev nikita khrushchev joseph stalin- death place is moscow , russian sfsr , soviet union- birth place is st. petersburg , russian empire- successor is nikolai tikhonov dmitriy ustinov vladimir novikov mikhail rodionov- citizenship is soviet- nationality is russian- residence is house on the embankment- battles is russian civil war- allegiance is russian sfsr- term start is 15 23 june 1943 4 may 1960 4 september 1948 29 october june 1957 16 october 1952 18 march 1946 1964 4 may 1960 20 march 1959- image is a. kosygin 1967.jpg- rank is conscript