Background
CHEBRIKOV, Viktor was born on April 27, 1923 in Ukraine. Son of late Mikhail Alexeyevich Chebrikov and Maria Savelievna Chebrikova.
CHEBRIKOV, Viktor was born on April 27, 1923 in Ukraine. Son of late Mikhail Alexeyevich Chebrikov and Maria Savelievna Chebrikova.
Graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute, 1950.
Member Communist Party Soviet Union, since 1944. Party posts, since 1951. Member auditing committee Ukraine Communist Party, 1956—1961.
Candidate member Central Committee, 1961—1971, secretary, 1963—1965. 2nd secretary Dnepropetrovak City Committee, Ukraine, 1958—1959, Dnepropetrovak District Committee, 1965—1967. 1st secretary Dnepropetrovak City Committee, 1961—1963.
Head personnel department, 1967—1968. Deputy chairman Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Security Committee Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), 1968—1982, 1st deputy chairman, 1982, chairman rank marshal, 1982—1988. Candidate member Central Committee Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1971—1981, member, since 1981, Politburo, 1985—1989.
CPSU since 1944; of Auditing Commission, of Ukrainian CP 1956-1961. Of Central Committee of Ukrainian CP 1961-1971, Secretary 1963-1965. Commission, to investigate crimes of Stalin 1988-1989.
Central Committee of USSR 1971-1981, full member 1981-1990. Politburo 1983-1985, member 1985-1989. Secretary 1988-1989; Foreign Affairs Commission, Soviet of Nationalities.
Married Zinaida Moiseyevna Chebrikova in 1946.