MOSCOW, Oct. 2 Former Chairman of the Council of Ministers USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov ceased to be a senator from the Belgorod region, according to the website of the Federation Council.
As follows from the conclusion of the Federation Council committee on regulations on the early termination of senators, the powers of “Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, vested with the powers of a representative in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from executive body of state power of the Belgorod region (resolution of the Governor of the Belgorod region dated September 27, 2021 No. 116).»
Ryzhkov was the oldest senator, he was 94 years old. The former chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR represented the government of the Belgorod region in the Federation Council for 20 years — since 2003.
Nikolai Ivanovich was born on September 28, 1929 in the Donetsk region, USSR. Graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute named after. S.M.Kirova (mechanical engineer). Worked in production. Then he continued his career along the party line.
From 1985 to 1991, he served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. In 1986, he headed the headquarters for eliminating the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in 1988 he coordinated the same work after the earthquake in the city of Spitak in Armenia.
In 1991, Ryzhkov participated in the first presidential elections in Russia, in which he lost to Boris Yeltsin. He was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the II and III convocations.
Awarded two Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Orders of Merit for the Fatherland, I and IV degrees, the October Revolution, the Patriotic War, I degree, Honor, and medals. Laureate of USSR State Prizes in 1969 and 1979.