Podgorny was later " promoted " to the Chairmanship of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and Andrei Kirilenko replaced him as Secretary in charge of personnel policy.

A fourth, Kirilenko, was forced into retirement.

At the Central Committee meeting of 22 November 1982, Kirilenko lost his membership in the Politburo ( after a decision within the Politburo itself ), and Nikolai Ryzhkov, the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee, was elected to the Secretariat.

Andrei P. Kirilenko, a Politburo member and Central Committee secretary under Brezhnev, was first secretary of the regional committee of Dnipropetrovsk.

Following the end of the 2011 NBA lockout that saw the 2011 – 12 season shortened to 66 games, the Jazz bid farewell to their two longest-tenured players – Mehmet Okur was traded to the Nets for a future 2nd-round pick, and Andrei Kirilenko, who played in his native Russia during the lockout and whose contract had expired after the 2011 season, decided to stay in Russia for the remainder of the 2011 – 12 season.

His adulation was only surpassed by those of Andrei Kirilenko and Heydar Aliyev.

Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko () ( – 12 May 1990 ) was a Soviet statesman from the start to the end of the Cold War.

In 1906, Kirilenko was born in Alexeyevka, Belgorod Oblast, Russian Empire, to a Russian working-class family.

As many like him, Kirilenko climbed up the Soviet hierarchy through the " industrial ladder "; by the 1960s, he was Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ).

Kirilenko was responsible for personnel selection and detailed supervision of the economic planning of the CPSU during most of the Brezhnev Era.

When Andropov became General Secretary in 1982, Kirilenko was pushed aside.

Andrei Kirilenko was born on 8 September 1906 in the village of Alexeyevka, Belgorod Oblast, Russian Empire, to a working-class family.

In 1938, Kirilenko became an active participant in party politics and was eventually selected to the position of Second Secretary of the Voroshilov District Party Committee in Zaporozhye Oblast.

During the Great Patriotic War, Kirilenko was directly involved with evacuating industry to safe zones.

In 1943, Kirilenko was relocated to Moscow, and during his stay there the production of advanced aircraft increased rapidly.

By the end of the war, in 1944, Kirilenko was made First Secretary of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Party.

Kirilenko was later promoted to Khrushchev's Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee.

In 1966, the Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSFSR was abolished, and Kirilenko became Brezhnev's chief lieutenant.

During most of his term, Kirilenko was one of four who had both a seat in the Secretariat and Politburo ; the three others were Brezhnev, Suslov and Fyodor Kulakov.

Kirilenko grew increasingly estranged with Brezhnev in 1977, some believe that it was due to the growing economic hardship that faced the Soviet Union.

However, the most common explanation is that Kirilenko grew estranged was because of his weakened position within the Collective leadership.

This congress was important to the Soviet Union, and Kirilenko compared Angola's development with that of Vietnam.

Kirilenko was seen as a key candidate by the West to replace Brezhnev as Soviet leader in 1982.

After Brezhnev's death, Kirilenko was removed from the ruling Politburo by the new General Secretary Andropov.

In the mid-to-late 1920s, Kirilenko started working for a mining enterprise located in the Voronezh Oblast.

After easy wins over Galina Voskoboeva, Julie Ditty and Lilia Osterloh, Petrova once again found herself up against Maria Kirilenko for a place in the final.

Zvonareva began her Asian hard-court swing at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, where she was the fourth seed and received a bye into the second round, then defeating Tsvetana Pironkova, Iveta Benešová, Maria Kirilenko, and Petra Kvitová — all in straight sets to progress to the final for the first time, where she lost to ninth seed Agnieszka Radwańska, 6 – 3, 6 – 2.

He was hired for the 2007 – 08 season by the Jazz as a special assistant coach and to help Andrei Kirilenko and others with their shooting.

He was in a relationship with fellow Russian player, Maria Kirilenko for several years, before they split in 2011.

Kirilenko dated fellow Russian player, Igor Andreev for several years.

Maria Kirilenko started showing a passion for tennis at age 5, but it was difficult to get practice in while still attending school.

Kirilenko made her debut for Russia at the Fed Cup tournament in April 2006.

At the Australian Open, Kirilenko reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career, beating sixth seed Anna Chakvetadze.

Kirilenko also won in Barcelona, defeating Martinez-Sanchez for her fourth career WTA title and the second of the year.

His death is viewed as starting the battle to succeed Brezhnev, in which Andropov, who assumed Suslov's post as the Party's Second Secretary, sidelined Kirilenko and Chernenko during the last days of Brezhnev's rule.

First World representatives treated Kirilenko as Second Secretary of the Communist Party because most of his duties as organisational secretary had been associated with that office in the past.

* 1906 – Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician ( d. 1990 )

* September 8 – Andrei Kirilenko ( politician ), Soviet politician ( d. 1990 )

Before Chernenko's rise in the Soviet hierarchy, Kirilenko provided detailed supervision of new party personnel and the economy.

Kirilenko led the Soviet delegation to the December 1977 MPLA Party Congress.

Kirilenko, along with Premier Kosygin, had been one of the most vocal opponents to a Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

Like his friend and ally Andrei Kirilenko, Podgorny climbed up the Soviet hierarchy through the industrial ladder ( delivering the production goals set by the bureaucrats in charge of the centrally planned economy ).

Born in the Soviet Union of paternal Ukrainian heritage, Kirilenko is a good friend to fellow WTA players Maria Sharapova, Daniela Hantuchová, Victoria Azarenka, Ana Ivanović, Agnieszka Radwańska, Nadia Petrova, and Marta Domachowska.