Birthday
1901/01/06
Day of death
1988/01/14 (87 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Orenburg, Orenburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Also know as
Georgy Malenkov, Georgiy Malenkov, Георгий Маленков, Gueorgui Malenkov
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (6 December 1901 [O.S. 23 November 1901]– 14 January 1988) was a Soviet politician who briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union. However, at the insistence of the rest of the Presidium, he relinquished control over the party apparatus in exchange for remaining Premier and first among equals within the Soviet collective leadership. He then became embroiled in a power struggle with Nikita Khrushchev that culminated in his removal from the pr...Read more