Nikolai Ryzhkov, family, wife, children, parents, siblings

Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov was best known as a Soviet, and later Russian, politician. He served as the last Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Responsible for the cultural and economic administration of the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era, Ryzhkov was succeeded as premier by Valentin Pavlov in 1991.

Nikolai Ryzhkov wife

Nikolai Ryzhkov was married to his wife Ludmila Ryzhkova. Details of the couple’s marriage were not given.

Nikolai Ryzhkov children

Nikolai Ryzhkov has a child named Marina.

Nikolai Ryzhkov parents

Nikolai Ryzhkov was born in the city of Shcherbynivka, Ukrainian SSR which is now Toretsk, Ukraine in 1929. After graduating in the 1950s he started work in the 1970s and began his political career in local industry, working his way up through the hierarchy of Soviet industrial ministries. He was born to Russian parents on September 28, 1929, in Dzerzhynsk, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.

Nikolai Ryzhkov siblings

Nikolai Ryzhkov’s siblings are not known.