An example of a political career can be called lifeNikolay Ivanovich Ryzhkov. He went through all the steps of the career ladder and embodied the image of a Soviet politician who seemed to be created specifically to promote the Soviet way of life. But at the same time Nikolai Ivanovich always remained a Man: with emotions, character, point of view.
In the family of a miner from the village of Dyleevka, Donetsk regionSeptember 28, 1929 the addition happened - a son was born. So the future Prime Minister Ryzhkov Nikolai Ivanovich appeared. Nothing foreshadowed such a significant biography, but fate had the boy's plans.
Childhood in Nikolai was not easy, because in ittime the country was going through difficult times: industrialization, war. All this made the boy grow up early and think about acquiring a useful profession. After school, he enters a machine-building technical school, where he receives a specialty in mechanical engineering. The desire to reach a high level in the profession forces him to enter the Urals Polytechnic Institute at the end of the "equipment and technology of welding production" at the end of the technical school.
After graduation from the technical school begins a careerthe road Nikolai Ryzhkov. He connected his life with the Urals Machine-Building Plant. In 1950 he comes to Uralmash, where he will work for 25 years. He begins a replacement foreman, then quickly moves up the career ladder: the head of the flight, the shop manager, the chief technologist, the chief engineer, the general director. At the age of 40 he was appointed head of an enterprise of union value. Such heights can be achieved very few, and this indicates the outstanding abilities of Nikolai Ryzhkov.
Его отличает высокая работоспособность, умение Take responsibility for themselves, managerial talent, the desire to penetrate into every little detail of the process that he manages. In the field of welding production, he was in those days a real ace; wrote two monographs, several scientific articles. During his time at Uralmashzavod, Nikolai Ryzhkov was twice awarded the State Prize: for organizing and implementing a project to create the largest block of workshops for welded engineering structures and for developing and introducing curvilinear continuous casting machines into production.
Такой активный и перспективный руководитель не could long stay even as a general director of one of the largest Soviet enterprises. The list of the personnel reserve of the country was introduced by Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, whose biography was very successful, and he did not have to stay in the list of candidates for high posts for a long time. In 1975 Nikolay Ryzhkov was appointed first deputy minister of heavy and transport engineering. Four years later he became the first deputy chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR. The statesman Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov was distinguished by adherence to principles, scale thinking, progressivity. His efficiency, experience and knowledge did not go unnoticed at these high posts.
In 1982, a new politician appeared in the country.Nikolai Ryzhkov, whose biography makes another turn and makes it to the top. According to the traditions of that time, Ryzhkov became a member of the Communist Party in 1956, it was a prerequisite for those who want to make a career. In 1981, he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and, as was typical of Nikolai Ivanovich, he began to move up the career ladder. Nikolai Ivanovich says that the introduction to the Central Committee was a surprise to him, this event was the result of Yu.V. Andropov. Immediately after the appointment of Ryzhkov include in the commission for the preparation of reforms. The situation in the country was very difficult, and the team, which also included M.S. Gorbachev, had to assess the situation and formulate proposals for its correction. A little later, Nikolai Ryzhkov, whose biography describes the next ascent, becomes secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, appointed head of the economic department. He very well imagined how things were going in the country, understood economic problems, could imagine a real way out of the crisis. In 1985, he became a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU - the highest governing body of the country at that time.
The coming to power of MS.Gorbachev Ryzhkov took it with enthusiasm. He supported the idea of the need for reforms, realizing that the country is rolling into the abyss, and it is urgent to do something. In 1985, Gorbachev appointed him Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Ryzhkov became the second person in the country. As Prime Minister Nikolai Ivanovich made a huge contribution to the elimination of the catastrophic consequences of the Chernobyl accident and the earthquake in Spitak. He is developing the economic part of the program of Gorbachev's perestroika. His position was very difficult: on the one hand, the liberals accused him of a lack of determination in carrying out reforms, on the other, the Communists of the old leaven believed that he betrayed the ideals of communism. At the end of December, Ryzhkov suffered a very severe heart attack, and Gorbachev sent him to retire. There is a version that Ryzhkov claimed the first position in the country, Gorbachev and removed him from power.
After retirement Nikolai Ryzhkov does not go awayfrom the political arena, and is running for President of the RSFSR and becomes the second person of the state after Yeltsin. In 1995 he was elected a deputy to the State Duma and will hold three convocations. In 2003, he became a member of the Federation Council, where he worked actively in the Committee on Natural Monopolies. He supported the policy of Vladimir Putin, voted for the mandate to the president to use force in Ukraine. In 2014 he receives from the hands of Putin the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. In general, Nikolai Ivanovich has many awards. He has 7 orders, several medals, has repeatedly received awards of different levels, awarded gratitude to the President of Russia.
Nikolay Ryzhkov, whose photo in the 90s is notgot away from the pages of the media, prefers not to talk about his personal life. His wife Lyudmila Sergeyevna and daughter Marina do not give interviews and do not flash at social events. In rare moments of leisure, Ryzhkov reads a lot, loves music, but still calls work his main business.
