Pyotr Demichev

Pyotr Demichev
Пётр Демичев
First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
In office
18 June 1986  1 October 1988
PresidentAndrei Gromyko
Preceded byVasily Kuznetsov
Succeeded byAnatoly Lukyanov
Minister of Culture
In office
14 November 1974  18 June 1986
PremierAlexei Kosygin
Nikolai Tikhonov
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded byEkaterina Furtseva
Succeeded byVasily Zakharov
Personal details
Born(1918-01-03)3 January 1918 [O.S. 21 December 1917]
Kirov, Kaluga Oblast, Soviet Russia
Died10 August 2010(2010-08-10) (aged 92)
Zhavoronki, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation
NationalitySoviet (1917–1991), Russian (1991–2010)
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1939–1991)
ProfessionCivil servant
Central institution membership

Other political offices held
  • 1945–1950: Head of department, secretary of the Soviet District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks of Moscow
  • 1950–1952: Deputy Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks
  • 1956–1958: Secretary of the Moscow Regional Party Committee
  • 1959–1960: First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Party Committee
  • 1958–1959: Administrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers
  • 1960–1962: First Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee

Pyotr Nilovich Demichev (Russian: Пётр Ни́лович Де́мичев; 3 January 1918 [O.S. 21 December 1917]  10 August 2010) was a Soviet politician. He was 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 from 1964 until his retirement in 1988. He was considered to be a "Communist Party ideologist" with little sympathy for liberal movements within the Soviet Union.