Mikhail Zimyanin
Mikhail Zimyanin | |
|---|---|
Міхаіл Зімянін | |
| Editor-in-chief of Pravda | |
| In office 21 July 1965 – 5 March 1976 | |
| Preceded by | Aleksei Rumyantsev |
| Succeeded by | Viktor Afanasyev |
| Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia | |
| In office 20 February 1960 – 8 April 1965 | |
| Preceded by | Ivan Grishin |
| Succeeded by | Stepan Chervonenko |
| Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Vietnam | |
| In office 21 January 1956 – 3 January 1958 | |
| Preceded by | Aleksandr Lavrischev |
| Succeeded by | Leonid Sokolov |
| Member of the 25th, 26th, 27th Secretariat | |
| In office 5 March 1976 – 28 January 1987 | |
| Full member of the 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th Central Committee | |
| In office 8 April 1966 – 25 April 1989 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 November 1914 Vitebsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1 May 1995 (aged 80) Moscow, Russia |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1939–1989) |
Mikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin (21 November 1914 – 1 May 1995) was a Belarusian Soviet partisan, politician, and diplomat who served as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Pravda, the official publication of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1976. Afterwards, he was appointed to the party's secretariat. He retired on 28 January 1987 for "health reasons".