{{short description|Soviet bureaucrat (1909–2004)}} {{Family name hatnote|Sergeyevich|Smirtyukov|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{More footnotes needed|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mikhail Smirtyukov | native_name = {{nobold|Михаил Смиртюков}} | native_name_lang = ru | image = Смиртюков,_Михаил_Сергеевич.jpg | office = 6th Managing Director of the [[Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union]] | term_start = December 18, 1964 | term_end = July 17, 1989 | premier = {{plainlist| * [[Alexei Kosygin]] * [[Nikolai Tikhonov]] * [[Nikolai Ryzhkov]] }} | predecessor = Georgy Stepanov | successor = Mikhail Shkabardnya | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|9|13}} | birth_place = Govorenki, Russian Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|12|26|1909|9|13}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | resting_place = [[Novodevichy Cemetery]], Moscow | party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)]] since 1940 | alma_mater = [[Moscow State University]] (1931) | profession = [[Jurist]] | awards = {{Collapsible list |[[Hero of Socialist Labour]] |[[Order of Lenin]] |[[Order of the October Revolution]] |[[Order of the Red Banner]] |[[Order of the Patriotic War]] |[[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]] |[[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"|Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"]] |[[Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"|Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"]] |[[Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"|Medal "For the Defense of Moscow"]] |[[Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"|Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945"]] |[[Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"|Anniversary Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945"]] |[[Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"|Anniversary Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945"]] |[[Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"|Anniversary Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945"]] |[[Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"|Anniversary Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945"]] |[[Medal of Zhukov|Zhukov Medal]] |[[Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"|Anniversary Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945"]] |[[Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"|Medal "In Memory of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"]] |[[Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"|Medal "In Memory of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"]] |[[Medal "For the Victory over Japan"]] |[[Medal "Veteran of Labour"]] |[[Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"|Anniversary Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union"]] |[[Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"|Anniversary Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union"]] |[[Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"|Anniversary Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union"]] |[[Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"|Medal "In Memory of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"]] |[[Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"|Medal "In Memory of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"]]}} | allegiance = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | unit = | commands = | battles = {{tree list}} * [[World War II]] ** [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] {{tree list/end}} }} '''Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirtyukov''' ({{Langx|ru|Михаил Сергеевич Смиртюков|links=no}}; September 13, 1909 – December 26, 2004) was a Soviet bureaucrat.
He became a member of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] in 1940, a member of the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee]] (1981–1990, candidate since 1976), a member of the [[Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Audit Commission]] (1971–1976), and a member of the [[Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union|Supreme Council of the Soviet Union]] (1966–1989).
==Biography== Smirtyukov was born into a peasant family in the village of Gorovenki,<ref>Now part of [[Odoyevsky District]] in [[Tula Oblast]]. According to his own testimony: [https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1752476 "I was born on September 13, 1909 in the village of Govorenki, Kaluga Province. Then, however, our village, during various reforms of the administrative structure of the country and changes in borders, entered different areas and ultimately ended up in the Odoevsky District of the Tula Region, which includes to this day"]</ref> and after Lenin's death, joined the [[Komsomol|Communist Youth League]] in response to the [[Lenin Enrolment]].
Between 1924 and 1927, he became the secretary of the village council, the secretary of the village cooperative, and the head of the club. In the spring of 1927, he graduated from high school.
He graduated from the faculty of Soviet law of [[Moscow State University]], where he studied in 1927–1931.
In October 1930, he worked in the apparatus of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, where he started out as a senior assistant, consultant, head of sector, and Assistant Secretary of the Economic Council. He eventually became Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union and assistant to the authorized State Defense Committee for the Supply of the Red Army [[Anastas Mikoyan]] in 1941. Smirtyukov continued to climb his way up, becoming the Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in March 1946.
Smirtyukov became the Deputy Manager of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union in 1953 and the managing director of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union in December 1964.
Among the members of the Political Bureau, he was the only one who was sent the most confidential orders of the highest governing body in the country, and the secretaries and heads of departments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were asked to coordinate the most important plans and resolutions with him.{{sfn|Zhirnov|2011|p=4}}
From July 1989, he was a personal pensioner of national importance; in 1989–1990, he was an adviser to the manager of affairs of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Mikhail Shkabardnya.<ref>[https://kommersant.ru/doc/1752486 I Have Never Seen a Premier Weaker Than Ryzhkov]</ref>
He is buried in [[Novodevichy Cemetery]] (3rd section, 1st row).{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}
==Family== Wife – Smirtyukova Vera Fyodorovna (1908–1980), Doctor of Medical Sciences.
==Awards and commemoration== *[[Hero of Socialist Labour]] (September 12, 1979); *The Four [[Order of Lenin|Orders of Lenin]] (March 7, 1943; September 12, 1969; September 12, 1979; September 12, 1984);{{sfn|Site "Heroes of the Country"}} *[[Order of the October Revolution]] (December 8, 1971); *[[Order of the Red Banner]] (August 3, 1944); *Two [[Order of the Patriotic War|Orders of the Patriotic War]] of the 1st Degree (November 6, 1945; March 11, 1985); *Two [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour|Orders of the Red Banner of Labour]] (April 23, 1942; September 12, 1959); *Medals; *A plaque in the Khobulzanov alley on the house where he lived.
==Compositions== *Soviet State Administration Apparatus: Questions of the Organization and Activity of Central Bodies – 2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged – Moscow: Publishing House of Political Literature, 1984 – 287 Pages
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== *[http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=15280 Smirtyukov, Mikhail Sergeevich]. Site "Heroes of the Country" *Smirtyukov Mikhail Sergeevich – article from the [[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] *[http://az-libr.ru/route/route.php?Persons/HC8/a7a56a41/index.shtml Biographies] *[https://archive.today/20121225094651/moscow-tombs.narod.ru/2004/smirtyukov_ms.htm Moscow Graves. Mikhail Smirtyukov], Photography, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120321214319/http://novodevichye.narod.ru/smirtyukov.html Smirtyukov Mikhail Sergeevich (1909–2004)] *{{cite journal|first=Evgeny|last=Zhirnov|title=The State is Him: The Life Story of Mikhail Smirtyukov – a Man Who Worked 60 years in the Kremlin, Told by Himself|journal=Коммерсантъ|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1752433|publisher=Kommersant Power|year=2011|volume=33|issue=937}}
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