Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov ( 1890-1986)
Born in Kukaida, Russia, Molotov studied at St Petersburg Technical College. He took part in the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and held various state and party offices from 1918 onwards. From 1930 to 1941, he was prime minister, and then deputy or first deputy prime minister until 1957. At the same time, he served as foreign minister from 1939 to 1949 and again from 1953 until June 1956. In 1956-7, he was minister of state supervision. He was a member of the CPSU Central Committee from 1921 to 1957 and its Presidium from 1926 to 1957. In June 1957, he was expelled from the leadership after an attempted coup against Nikita Khrushchev. He then served as ambassador to Mongolia and in 1960-62 as the Soviet permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. He was expelled from the party in 1962, but readmitted in 1984.
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