death_date nationality ethnicity birth_date term_end restingplace death_place term_start image name native_name_lang predecessor birth_place president party office successor native_name article_title
5 june 1990 soviet russian 13 february 1901 18 14 october 1952 june 1986 5 march 1953 25 february 1986 novodevichy cemetery moscow , russian sfsr , soviet union 7 18 march 1946 october 1977 16 october 1952 3 october 1977 kuznetzov 43062x8x18.jpg vasili kuznetsov ru none -- post established sofilovka , kostroma governorate , russian empire leonid brezhnev yuri andropov konstantin chernenko andrei gromyko communist party of the soviet union first soviet full member of the 19th politburo candidate member of deputy the 25th , 26th politburo member of the orgburo chairman of the presidium of the supreme pyotr demichev Василий Кузнецов vasili kuznetsov -lrb- politician -rrb-

vasili kuznetsov -lrb- politician -rrb-

vasili vasilyevich kuznetsov -lrb- ; 5 june 1990 -rrb- , was a russian soviet political figure ; acting as chairman of the presidium of the supreme soviet from 1982 to 1983 , for a second time in 1984 , and for a third time in 1985 .
kuznetsov was born in sofilovka , kostroma governorate .
he joined the communist party in may 1927 .
he took a break from his engineering education when he went to the united states to study metal processing at carnegie mellon university from 1931 to 1933 .
kuznetsov held a variety of government and communist party positions beginning in 1940 .
he was a chairman of the soviet of nationalities 12 march 1946 -- 12 march 1950 .
in 1955 he became first deputy minister of foreign affairs .
on 7 october 1977 he was elected first deputy chairman of the presidium of the ussr supreme soviet , a position he held until 18 june 1986 .
upon the deaths of leonid brezhnev -lrb- 1982 -rrb- , yuri andropov -lrb- 1984 -rrb- and konstantin chernenko -lrb- 1985 -rrb- , kuznetsov became acting chairman of the presidium until the election of a successor .
he retired in 1986 and died in moscow on 5 june 1990 .
