Egors biography

Egor Ligachev was born on November 29 in the village of Dubinkino Tomsk province now the Chulymsky district of the Novosibirsk region in a peasant family. In the year he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Sergo Ordzhonikidze is now the Moscow Aviation Institute - National Research University, in the year - in absentia the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of the Bolsheviks.

In the year he worked as a technologist, head of the group of the technical department of the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after In the years he held various posts in the Komsomol organizations of Novosibirsk and the region: he was the secretary of the Dzerzhinsky district committee of the Komsomol Novosibirsk, from the year as a secretary for promotion and agitation, and from the year the first secretary of the Novosibirsk regional committee of the Komsomol.

In August, he was removed from his post on charges of Trotskyism and an attempt to "tear the youth from the party." In the years - the head of the Department of Culture of the Executive Committee of the Novosibirsk Regional Council of People's Deputies of the Novosibirsk Oblast Executive Committee. From the years, he was the deputy chairman of the Novosibirsk Oblast Executive Committee.

From November 26 to April 29, he headed the Tomsk region, being the first secretary of the Tomsk regional committee of the CPSU. He replaced Ivan Kapitonov at these posts. Member of the Politburo from April 23 to July 13. In fact, he was the second person in the party after the Secretary General of Mikhail Gorbachev. In the same period, he was one of the initiators and leaders of the anti -alcohol campaign in the USSR.

From the years - the People’s Deputy of the USSR. In July, he was removed from all party posts and retired. He was a personal pensioner of union significance for personal pensions in the USSR were established by a special State Commission for persons who have special merits to the Soviet state in the field of "revolutionary, state, social and economic activity". In December, he was one of the People’s Deputies of the USSR who signed an appeal to the president and the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union with a proposal to convene an emergency congress of people's deputies.

It was assumed that the Extraordinary Congress should consider the issue of the powers of the Belovezhsky agreements on the liquidation of the USSR. However, the proposal of union deputies was not implemented. In years - a member of the control commission of the People's -Patriotic Union of Russia, the chairman - Gennady Zyuganov. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, was a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy until May, then as deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Veterans.

In October, he refused the proposal of the Public Chamber of the Tomsk Region to include it in the list of ten outstanding compatriots, whose names were chosen for voting to assign a new name to Tomsk Airport Bogashevo.

He was awarded two orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of "Badge of Honor", two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, medals. Honorary Citizen of the Tomsk Region, author of the books "Riddle of Gorbachev"; In years, published in English. In the years he was married to Zinaida Ivanovna Zinovieva, the daughter of the chief of staff of the Siberian military district of the commander Ivan Zinoviev, who was repressed during the year.

Son - Alexander Rod. Prokhorov RAS.