Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev is a Soviet politician. Initially an ally of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ligachev by 1989 became one of his main critics.
Childhood
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev was born on November 29, 1920 in a village called Dubinkino near Novosibirsk. From 1938 to 1943 he studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Ordzhonikidze and received a technical education. Ligachev joined the CPSU at the age of 24 in 1944, and then studied at the Higher Party School in 1951.
Political career
Ligachev began his career as first secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee in Novosibirsk, then became deputy chairman, and then first secretary of the Novosibirsk regional committee of the CPSU, he went all this way from 1959 to 1961.
From 1965 to 1983 he worked as the first secretary of the CPSU in Tomsk.
In 1966, Ligachev was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee, and ten years later, in 1976, he became a member of the Central Committee.
Ligachev fervently supported the reforms in the USSR and was initially a companion of Gorbachev, however, when Gorbachev's policy of perestroika and glasnost began to deviate from communist dogmas and began to drift more and more towards social democratic politics, he dissociated himself from Gorbachev, and by 1988 was recognized as the leader of the conservative factions of Soviet politicians who opposed Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev.
Ligachev was a member of the Politburo from 1985 to 1990. On September 30, 1988, Yegor Kuzmich, after making a speech in which he harshly criticized the policy of the USSR General Secretary, was demoted from the post of secretary for ideology to minister of agriculture.
At the 28th Congress of the CPSU in 1990, he criticized Gorbachev for becoming the first Soviet President without the approval of the CPSU and arguing that glasnost had gone too far.
After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Ligachev stood at the origins of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in 1993. He was elected three times to the Russian State Duma as a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Until 2003, he was the oldest member of parliament, until he lost the 2003 elections, when he won 23.5 percent of the vote against United Russia candidate Vladimir Zhidkikh, who received 53 percent of the votes.
A family
Yegor Kuzmich had an older brother Dmitry, he died at the very end of the Second World War and was buried in a military cemetery in Weimar [25].
He was married to Zinaida Ivanovna Zinovieva, daughter of the Chief of Staff of the Siberian Military District, who was shot in 1938 on a false denunciation. She died in June 1997 in the arms of her husband.
Their son, Alexander Ligachev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, professor of the Center for Natural Science Research, head of the department of the Institute of General Physics. A. M. Prokhorov RAS. There is a grandson, Alexei, who also has a child, a great-grandson was named in honor of Yegor Kuzmich.
