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Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (Russian: Сергей Никитич Хрущёв; 2 July 1935 – 18 June 2020) was a Soviet-born American engineer and the second son of the Cold War-era Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with his wife Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva.
Khrushchev was born on 15 April 1894, [e] [2] in Kalinovka, [3] a village in what is now Russia's Kursk Oblast (then Kursk Governorate), near the present Ukrainian border. [4] His parents, Sergei Khrushchev and Kseniya Khrushcheva, were poor Russian peasants, [5] and had a daughter two years Nikita's junior, Irina. [2]
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era was written by William Taubman, who serves as a professor of political science at Amherst College. [2] The book is the first in-depth biography of Khrushchev, [3] [4] [5] the publication of which was made possible by newly established access to archives in Russia and Ukraine, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
After Khrushchev became the Soviet leader in 1953, Kukharchuk acted as the First Lady of the Soviet Union, in a position that was non-existent with previous Soviet leaders. In contrast to her predecessors she accompanied Khrushchev in his foreign trips, took part in official events, and was de facto manager of Khrushchev's private life.
Khrushchev arrived in Washington, DC on 15 September 1959, landing at Andrews Air Force Base at 11:30 a.m. [11] Khrushchev was accompanied by his wife Nina, as well as his adult children (son Sergei, daughters Yulia and Rada, and son-in-law Alexey).
Zhukov followed orders from the then Prime Minister Georgy Malenkov and Communist Party leader Khrushchev during the invasion of Hungary following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. [90] Along with the majority of members of the Presidium, he urged Khrushchev to send troops to support the Hungarian authorities and to secure the Austrian border ...
Sergei Khrushchev; Nina Kukharchuk-Khrushcheva; Nina Khrushcheva (professor) This page was last edited on 30 April 2024, at 00:57 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Nikita Khrushchev (journalist) (1959–2007), grandson of Nikita Khrushchev Sr. Nina Kukharchuk (1900–1984), wife of Nikita Khrushchev Sr. Nina L. Khrushcheva (born 1964), great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev Sr. Sergei Khrushchev (1935-2020), engineer and son of Nikita Khrushchev Sr.