Education
Dolgikh received the Candidate of Sciences degree from the Irkutsk Mining-Metallurgical Institute.
Dolgikh received the Candidate of Sciences degree from the Irkutsk Mining-Metallurgical Institute.
He was a candidate member (non-voting) of the Political Bureau from 1982 to 1988. Dolgikh"s early career involved various industrial and engineering management positions in Krasnoyarsk and Norilsk. In 1969 he became the First Secretary of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1972 he became a Secretary of the Central Committee.
Dolgikh retired from all his Communist Party of the Soviet Union leadership positions in September 1988.
He was awarded two Hero of Socialist Labour titles, six Orders of Lenin and many other awards. In September 2013 the mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, appointed him as representative of the local government in the Federation Council.
Since 2011 he has been a State Duma deputy for United Russia.
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]
He was made a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee in 1971. Dolgikh was elected as a candidate member of the Political Bureau in May 1982, at the same plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that made Yuri Andropov a Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.