The former secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Egor Ligachev died

In Moscow, the former secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Egor Ligachev died. This was reported by the administration of the Tomsk region. He was 100 years old.

From November 1965 to April 1983, Ligachev was the first secretary of the Tomsk regional committee of the CPSU (head of the region - approx. Cor.D.) Ligachev was the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1985 to 1990. From 2000 to 2003, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Tomsk single -mandate district.

Ligachev spent most of his life on Komsomolskaya - he became a functionary during the war years - and party work. For almost 20 years, during the time of Leonid Brezhnev, he headed the Tomsk regional committee of the CPSU. In 1983 he moved to Moscow, becoming the secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. Member of the Politburo - since 1985, after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. He was the secretary of the Central Committee for organizational and party work and ideology.

During the years of perestroika, he was perceived first as one of the associates of Gorbachev, and then as the leader of the conservative wing of the party, the opponent of democratic forces, the symbol of which was Boris Yeltsin.

In particular, the 1985 anti -alcohol campaign is associated with the name of Ligachev, the publication of the letter of Nina Andreeva in 1988 in the defense of Stalin, known as the “Manifesto of Anti -Permitted Forces” and, finally, the conflict with Boris Yeltsin, largely due to which Ligachev received the reputation of the opponent of perestroika.