# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolai-ryzhkov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:39:08.989Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolai-ryzhkov"
name: "Nikolai Ryzhkov"
slug: "nikolai-ryzhkov"
description: "Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov was a Russian politician. He served as the last chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and was succeeded by Valentin Pavlov as prime minister. The same year, he lost his seat on the Presidential Council, going on to become Boris Yeltsin's leading opponent in the 1991 presidential election of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He was the last surviving premier of the Soviet Union following the death of Ivan Silayev on 8 February 2023."
tagline: "Soviet-Russian politician (1929–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nikolay_Ryzhkov_senator_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1929-09-28"
deathDate: "2024-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 65
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill