Boris Nikolayevich Chernousov (russian: Борис Николаевич Черноусов; 30 June 1908 – 2 January 1978) was a Soviet politician who served as Premier of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1949 to 1952, during the final years of

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's rule. Chernousov was born in 1908 in

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to a family of a railway worker. He spent the second half of 1920s as a Komsomol activist in the

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, before moving to Moscow in 1929. In 1935 he graduated from the

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. Chernousov quickly rose in ranks within the Communist party ending with the position of head of the department for trade unions, party and Komsomol organs within the

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in 1948. In 1949 Chernousov was appointed premier of the Soviet Russia, after his predecessor Mikhail Rodionov fell during the Leningrad affair. In October 1952, the 19th Congress of the CPSU decided to replace Chernousov with Alexander Puzanov. Chernousov was removed from all positions held in the Communist Party and was appointed director of the Moscow searchlight plant. In 1955-1957 Boris Chernousov was deputy minister of the automobile industry of the USSR. He died 2 January 1978 and was buried at the

Novodevichy Cemetery Novodevichy Cemetery ( rus, Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist ...

in Moscow.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chernousov, Boris 1908 births 1978 deaths People from Syzran Russian communists Moscow Power Engineering Institute alumni Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union candidate members Heads of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery