Nikolai Podgorny, Soviet ex-President

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World, Edited By Anne Collier / January 13, 1983

Moscow

Former Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, who passed on Monday night, was head of state from 1965 to 1977, when Leonid Brezhnev ousted him and added the presidency to his position as general secretary of the Communist Party.