Kuznetsov, Vasily Vasilyevich
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▪ Soviet official
born Feb. 13 [Jan. 31, Old Style], 1901, Sofilovka, Russia
died June 5, 1990, Moscow
Soviet official and diplomat.
Kuznetsov studied metallurgical engineering at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute and joined the Communist Party in 1927; his career as an engineer (1927–44) was interrupted for further study in the United States (1931–33). Kuznetsov became chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in 1944. He became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1952 and was a member of its Presidium (now the Politburo) in 1952–53. In 1953 he began a two-year term as Soviet ambassador to China. From 1955 to 1977 he was first deputy minister of foreign affairs. From 1977 to 1986 he was a candidate member of the Politburo and served as first deputy chairman (first vice president) of the Presidium of the Soviet Union. Upon the death of Leonid Brezhnev on Nov. 10, 1982, Kuznetsov served as acting president of the Soviet Union until Yury Andropov assumed the position of president on June 16, 1983.
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