Anatoly Lukyanov had been in power for nearly half a century.

Wednesday, January 9, the Governor of the Smolensk region Alexei Ostrovsky wrote in social networks about the death of his confidant, the last Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and close associate of Mikhail Gorbachev, Anatoly Lukyanov. Reports about it “Диалог.UA” referring to the publication in Twitter.

According to the daughter of 88-year-old Lukyanova Elena, her father was in very poor condition, it was hard.

It is known that Anatoly Lukyanov was born in Smolensk in 1930. He worked at a defense plant with 13 years, and he finished school after the war, in 1948. In 1953 he graduated from the law faculty of Moscow state University.

Lukyanova serious career began in the 1950s in the government of the USSR. He was a consultant of the legal Commission at the Council of Ministers, also worked in the office of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

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