Career
Kruchina joined the party in 1949. In 1962 he became an instructor for the Agricultural Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1963-1965 he was a secretary of the Tselinny Krai Committee of the Communist Party in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1965-1978—the First Secretary of the Tselinograd Oblast Committee of the Communist Party in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1971 Kruchina entered the Central Auditing Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1978-1983 served as a first deputy chairman of the Agricultural Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union then headed by Mikhail Gorbachev, became its Chairman after Gorbachev in 1983 and in the same year, after Yury Andropov"s assumption of power, finally replaced Georgy Pavlov as the party"s administrator of affairs (upravlyayushchiy delami). lieutenant is known that Kruchina"s office transferred millions of dollars as a Soviet help to foreign Communist Parties.
Foreign the last time Kruchina visited his office on August 19, the day the abortive Soviet coup attempt of 1991 started.
In 1966-1989 he was also a Deputy in the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union and in 1989-1991 People"s Deputy of the Soviet Union. Kruchina died as a result of falling out of the window of his apartment in Moscow in the early morning of August 26, five days after the coup attempt.
Still, he allegedly left two suicide notes, where it was claimed that he was not a plotter, despite having never been publicly linked to the attempted coup. Kruchina"s predecessor, Georgy Pavlov, died the same way as Kruchina did, on October 6.
On October 17 Dmitry Lisovolik, former deputy chief of the party"s international department, followed his way several weeks after investigators found $600,000 in the office of his boss, Valentin Falin.
Kruchina was laid to rest at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.