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unusual facts about Premier of the Soviet Union



1965 in India

18 September - Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.

Collective leadership

Collective leadership is characterised by limiting the powers of the General Secretary and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers as related to other offices by enhancing the powers of collective bodies, such as the Politburo.

Denmark–Soviet Union relations

Premier of the Soviet Union Nikolai Bulganin's policy against Denmark was to influence Denmark to limit their policy and commitments in NATO.

Dzerzhynsk, Ukraine

Nikolai Ryzhkov, a former Premier of the Soviet Union, was born in the city in 1929.

Pakistan Steel Mills

In 1958, Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin offered technical and scientific assistance to Prime minister Suhrawardy regarding the steel mills and expressing interests in establishing the country's first steel mills.

Savik Shuster

A distant uncle, who was vice president of the oil company Shell Canada, intervened with Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin on their behalf.


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