Pyotr Demichev
Soviet politician
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| Intro | Soviet politician | |
| Places | Russia | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 3 January 1918, Kirov, Kirovsky District, Kaluga Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Russia | |
| Death | 10 August 2010Moscow Oblast, Russia (aged 92 years) |
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Pyotr Nilovich Demichev (Russian: Пётр Нилович Демичев; 21 December [O.S. 3 January 1918] 1917 – 10 August 2010) was a Soviet-Russian political figure. He was First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of Culture from 1974 to 1986. He was a deputy Politburo member beginning in 1964. He was considered to be a "Communist Party ideologist" with little sympathy for liberal movements within the Soviet Union.