Who was the last premier of the Soviet Union to die before Ryzhkov?
Ivan Silayev
Alexei Kosygin
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Answer
Ivan Silayev was the last premier of the Soviet Union to die before Ryzhkov. He was born in 1930 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1955 and served in various government positions throughout his career. He was appointed prime minister of the Soviet Union in 1991 and served in that position until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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