Background
He was born in a village of Holubivka, near Kreminna (today Luhansk Oblast), on 20 October 1926.
He was born in a village of Holubivka, near Kreminna (today Luhansk Oblast), on 20 October 1926.
He attended Stavropol Pedagogical Institute and graduated in 1954.
Served in Red Army 1944-1950. Teacher in Stavropol district 1950-1954; First Secretary, Stavropol City Committee of All-Union Communist Youth League 1954-1956.
Party posts in Stavropol District 1956-1959.
Secretary of Stavropol City Committee Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1959-1961. Head of Department, of Stavropol District Committee Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1961-1963.
Deputy Chair, of Executive Committee of Stavropol District Workers’ Soviet 1963-1964. First Secretary Kislovodsk City Committee Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1965-1970.
First Secretary Stavropol City Committee Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1970-1974.
Deputy to Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet 1971-1975. Secretary of Stavropol District Committee Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1974-1975. First Secretary of Karachaevo-Cherkessk Autonomous District Committee Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1975-1978.
First Secretary of Stavropol District Committee Communist Party of the Soviet Union and
Deputy to Council of the Union, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet since 1979. Deputy Chair, of Mandate Commission 1984-1985.
First Deputy Chair, of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Council of Ministers, Chair, of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Agro-industrial Committee (Gosagroprom, encompassing functions of five ministries) 1985-1989. First Deputy Prime Minister of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics since 1986.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1946; Military Council, North Caucasian Military District 1978-1985; Central Committee Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1981.