Background
PODGORNY, Nikolay was born in 1903 in Karlovka, now Poltava Oblast.
PODGORNY, Nikolay was born in 1903 in Karlovka, now Poltava Oblast.
1907 graduated workers' faculty. 1931 graduated Kiev Polytechn. Institute of Food Industry.
At 1952 Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congress elected member, Central Auditing Commission. At 1958 Plenum, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, elected candidate Presidium member. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1954 and 1958 convocation.
S. June 1958 Presidium member USSR Supreme Soviet. Deputy and Presidium member, Ukrainia Supreme Soviet of 1947, 1951, 1955 and 1959 convocation. 1960 accompanied Khrushchev to 15 th session of United Nations General Assembly in New York and headed Soviet delegation Prague for 15 th anniversary celebrations of “liberation of Czechoslovakia”.
1918-1921 worked at various enterprises. 1921-1923 Secretary, Communist Youth League cell and rayon comt. 1931-1937 various pos. in Ukrainia sugar industry.
Senior assist, to chief engineer, Deputy Chief Engineering and then Chief Engineering at various sugar plants. 1937-1939 Chief Engineering, Vinnitsa and Kamenets-Podolsky Sugar Trusts. 1939-1941 Ukrainia Deputy Popular Commissar of Food Industry, then USSR Deputy Popular Commissar of Food Industry.
1941-1944 Director, Moscow Technology Institute of Food Industry. 1944-1946 Ukrainia Deputy Popular Commissar of Food Industry. 1946-1950 Permanent Representative of Ukrainia Council of Ministers at USSR government.
1950-1953 First Secretary, Kharkov Oblast Committee Ukrainia. 1953-1957 Second Secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party Ukraine.
Member, Communist Party, since 1930.
Member, Communist Party, since 1930.