Alexei Kosygin Death
Alexei passed away on December 18, 1980 at the age of 76.
When did Alexei Kosygin die?
December 18, 1980How old was Alexei Kosygin when died?
76
Alexei Kosygin Birthday and Date of Death
Alexei Kosygin was born on February 20, 1904 and died on December 18, 1980. Alexei was 76 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: February 20, 1904
Date of Death: December 18, 1980
Age at Death: 76
Alexei Kosygin - Biography
Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин, Aleksej Nikolajevič Kosygin; 21 February [O.S. 5 March] 1904 – 18 December 1980) was a Soviet-Russian statesman during the Cold War. Kosygin was born in the city of St. Petersburg in 1904 to a Russian working-class family. He was conscripted into the labour army during the Russian Civil War, and after the Red Army's demobilisation in 1921, he worked in Siberia as an industrial manager. Kosygin returned to Leningrad in the early 1930s and worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy. During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Kosygin was a member of the State Defence Committee and was tasked with moving Soviet industry out of territories soon to be overrun by the German military. He served as Minister of Finance for a year before becoming Minister of Light Industry and later, the Minister of Light and Food Industry. Stalin removed Kosygin from the Politburo one year before his own death in 1953, intentionally weakening Kosygin's position within the Soviet hierarchy.
