Vladilen Nikitin (russian: Владилен Никитин; 30 October 1936 – 27 May 2021) was a

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engineer and politician. He served as first deputy premier during the

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Biography

Nikitin was born in 1936. He attended the Omsk Agricultural Institute and then the Higher Party School at the CPSU Central Committee and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. Nikitin worked as senior engineer until 1976 when he was appointed chairman of the

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. In 1985, he became minister of agriculture and then first deputy chairman of the state agroindustrial committee, Gosagroprom. He served as first deputy prime minister under

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. He was also appointed chairman of the state commission for food and purchasing, becoming the first executive of the body. He was fired by Gorbachev on 31 August 1990 due to cigarette shortage which caused demonstrations in Moscow. He died on 27 May 2021.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nikitin, Vladilen 20th-century Russian engineers 21st-century Russian engineers 1936 births 2021 deaths Politicians from Omsk Candidates of the Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Omsk State Agrarian University alumni People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union Soviet mechanical engineers