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Yuri Andropov

Yuri Andropov [p. 2 (15) .6.1914, p. Nagutskaya Stavropol Territory], the Soviet state and party figure. Member of the CPSU since 1939 Born in a family of employees. He began his career in 1930 working. In 1936 he graduated from the College of Water Transport, worked komsorgom the Komsomol shipyard them. Volodarskogo in Rybinsk. In 1937 he was elected secretary, and in 1938 the first secretary of the Yaroslavl Regional Komsomol. In 1940 was elected first secretary of the Communist Youth of Karelia. In 1944 went to party work: first, the second secretary of Petrozavodsk city committee, and in 1947 the second secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Karelia. A. In 1951 transferred to the apparatus of the CPSU Central Committee. In 1953-57 the diplomatic service – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR in Hungary. From 1957 he headed the department of the CPSU Central Committee. Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1961 From November 1962 to July 1967 Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, since 1967 a candidate member of the Politburo. Since May 1967 the Chairman of the State Security Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3rd, 6-7 convocations. Awarded two Orders of Lenin, four other orders, and various medals

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