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Alexei Rykov succeeded Lenin as chairman of the Sovnarkom, and although he was de jure the most powerful person in the country, in fact, all power was concentrated in the hands of the "troika" – the union of three influential party figures: Grigory Zinoviev, Joseph Stalin, and Lev Kamenev.
List of presidents. Of the eleven individuals appointed head of state, three died in office of natural causes (Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko), one held the position in a temporary role (Charles Haman), and four held posts of party leader and head of state simultaneously (Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Mikhail ...
v. t. e. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev[f][g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state ...
In September 1918, the largest factions united into the Provisional All-Russian Government, creating the Russian State. Two months later, Admiral Alexander Kolchak headed the Russian State as a Supreme Ruler. After Kolchak's defeat in 1920, the White movement started to decline, with most of its members leaving Russia in November 1920 under the ...
Since then, the head of that office takes the formal title "Chairmen of the Government" or colloquially "Prime Minister." Current Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin took the office on 16 January 2020. The youngest head of government by his accession to office was Sergey Kiriyenko (1998), at age 35, and the oldest Ivan Goremykin (1914), at age 74.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[u](USSR),[v]commonly known as the Soviet Union,[w]was a transcontinental countrythat spanned much of Eurasiafrom 1922 to 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zonesand sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country.
The idea of the institution of a sole head of state (instead of collegial leadership) first appeared during the preparation of the draft 1936 Soviet Constitution.However, at the suggestion of the informal first person of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, who could compete with the official head of state, the idea was rejected.
Only days prior, Mali's junta leader Assimi Goita, who seized power in a coup in 2021, said his army had considerably weakened the armed groups it is fighting with Russia's help.