Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev (1920-)

Member of the C.P.S.U. and a Soviet politician.

Born in November 1920, Russian. In 1943, he graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Institute of Aeronautics in Moscow. He joined the Soviet Communist Party in 1944. He worked as an engineer in Chkalov Aircraft Production Factory in Siberia. Later, he was engaged in the work of the Communist Youth League and served as the Secretary of the new Siberia District Committee, the second and the first Secretary of the state committee of the Communist Youth League.

Since 1949, he engaged in the work of the Party and the Soviet Union. He carried out duties as Minister of the Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Novosibirsk Komsomol and then as the First Secretary of the District Committee (Obkom), and Secretary of the State Party Committee. From 1961 to 1965, he served as Deputy Minister of the Russian Bureau of the C.P.S.U.. In 1965, he assumed duties of First Secretary of the Tomsk Regional Committee of the C.P.S.U.. He has been an alternate member of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee since 1966 and a non-voting member of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee since 1976. In 1983, he was appointed as the director of the Party Organization Department of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee. In the same year, he was elected as a secretary of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee.

In April 1985, he was elected as a full member of the Political Bureau of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee. In July of the same year, he was elected as the chairman of the Commission of International Affairs. In 1989, Ligachev was demoted from his presidency over the work of the Secretariat of the Ideology, he was appointed as the chairman of the Central Agricultural Policy Committee of the C.P.S.U.. In July 1990, he ran for the office of general secretary of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee, but he was not elected. In the same year he left his post in the Politburo.

Ligachev was one of the representative figures in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who advocated steady reform within the socialist option, opposed the denial of the achievements of seventy years of socialism in the Soviet Union, stressed class struggle and the leadership of the Communist Party, and had many clashes with Yeltsin and Yakovlev. He is the author of Selected Works of Ligachev, and others.