Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (russian: Дми́трий Степа́нович Поля́нский; – 8 October 2001) was a Soviet statesman who was First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1973. From 1958 to 1962 he was Chairman of the

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of the

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, equivalent to a Premier in of one of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics that comprised the Soviet Union. Polyansky was awarded four

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. His wife Galina died in 2005.

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