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He was born in 1894 in the village of Kalinovka, Olkhov parish, Dmitrievsky County, Kursk province (now khomutovsky district, Kursk region).
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He became a apprentice locksmith at the machine-Building and iron foundry E. T. Bosse, since 1912 worked as a locksmith at the mine and as a miner was not taken to the front in 1914.
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Joined the Bolshevik party. He fought in the Civil war.
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Went to study at the technical school of Dontekhnikum in Yuzovka, where he became postsecretory College.
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From March 7, 1935 to February 1938-first Secretary of the Moscow regional Committee of the CPSU (b).
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September 7, 1953 at the Plenum of the Central Committee was elected first Secretary of the CPSU.
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October 14, 1964 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, organized in the absence of N. Khrushchev, who was on vacation, dismissed him from the post of first Secretary of the CPSU "for health reasons". After that he was retired. Recorded on tape multi-volume memoirs.
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He died on September 11, 1971.