Alexander Puzanov | |
Order: | Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR |
Term Start: | 20 October 1952 |
Term End: | 24 January 1956 |
Predecessor: | Boris Chernousov |
Successor: | Mikhail Yasnov |
Office3: | Candidate member of the 19th Presidium, Member of the CPSU Central Committee |
Term Start3: | 16 October 1952 |
Term End3: | 6 March 1953 |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1906 |
Birth Place: | Lezhkovka, Yuryevetsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
Nationality: | Soviet and Russian |
Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Resting Place: | Vagankovo Cemetery |
Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov (ru|Александр Михайлович Пузанов; [1] – 1 March 1998) was a Soviet and Russian statesman who was from 1952 to 1956 the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR, literally meaning Premier or Prime Minister.
Puzanov also had a diplomatic career. He served as the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to North Korea from 1957 to 1962,[2] to Yugoslavia from 1962 to 1967, to Bulgaria from 1967 to 1972 and to Afghanistan from 1972 to 1979.