After Premier Alexei Kosygin's fall from favour Podgorny became the second most powerful figure in the Soviet Union until his removal as head of state in 1977.

After the Russian Revolution Podgorny became one of the founders of the Karlovka Komsomol.

In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the All-Union Communist Party ( bolsheviks ).

In 1960 Podgorny became a member of the Politburo ( Political Bureau ) and by 1963 had risen to prominence within the Soviet hierarchy as a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ).

Destalinisation came to a halt under the new General Secretary, Leonid Brezhnev who emerged as the new party leader after first plotting with Nikolai Podgorny to oust Khrushchev and then outmanoeuvering Podgorny to take the party leadership ( Podgrony became the ceremonial head of state as a consolation until Brezhnev took that position for himself in 1977 ).

The coup took Podgorny evidently by surprised, seeing that he left Moscow on 10 October, two days before the coup was initiated.

Factionalism within the Soviet leadership in the 1960s led Podgorny to become more active ; he held several speeches in Moscow and went on numerous state visits at the expense of Brezhnev and Kosygin's popularity.

According to Time, " There was some speculation in Moscow " that if Brezhnev didn't succeed in removing Podgorny he would establish a Council of State modelled after institutions found in, for example, East Germany ( Staatsrat ), People's Republic of Bulgaria and the Socialist Republic of Romania.

Podgorny died of cancer on 12 January 1983, and was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery.

In 1926 Podgorny graduated from a local workers ' school, and graduated from the Kiev Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931.

By the end of 1939 Podgorny had become Deputy People's Commissar for Food Industry of the Ukrainian SSR.

The next year Podgorny was appointed Deputy People's Commissar for Food Industry of the Soviet Union.

In the post-war years Podgorny regained his old office of Deputy People's Commissar for Food Industry of the Ukrainian SSR, but was later appointed in 1946 as a Permanent Representative to the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (, ) ( – 12 January 1983 ) was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War.

In this role, Podgorny worked on reorganising and modernising the Ukrainian economy, which had been destroyed during the war years.

Podgorny frequently paid visits to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War to discuss Soviet-Vietnamese foreign relations.

In 1967, just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, Podgorny delivered an intelligence report to Egyptian Vice President Anwar Sadat which claimed, falsely, that Israeli troops were massing along the Syrian border.

Because of his handling of agriculture, First World commentators saw Podgorny as one of Khrushchev's many potential heirs.

Podgorny had been able to win support from the hardline communists due to Brezhnev's liberal-minded policy regarding Yugoslavia, military disarmament deals with the First World, and forcing East Germany into a concession with West Germany in the Berlin negotiations.

In the 20th century, the first secondary education institute in Belarus was founded ( 1924 ) and the first operas ( Mikhas Podgorny by E. Tikotsky, In Virgin Forests of Polesie by A. Bogatryev and The Flower of Happiness by A. Turenkov ) and ballets ( The Nightingale by M Kroshner ).

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 ).

In an article on anti-CND groups, Steve Dorril reported that in 1982 Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, became concerned about the growing unilateralist movement.

In 2004, she became the first American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, for Lost in Translation.

Capra became one of America's most powerful directors during the 1930s, winning three Oscars as Best Director.

It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) became the first film to win all five top Oscars ( Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay ).

") In 1925 he became Director of the Academy, and from 1927 to 1931 its Rector.

In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.

The prominent French socialist Albert Thomas became its first Director General.

In 1943 Stillman left for war work and Gode became Acting Director of Research.

Dalglish became Director of Football at Blackburn in June 1995.

In October 1925, Mao became acting Propaganda Director of the Kuomintang.

An initial application for Film Commission money was rejected, ironically by Executive Director Jim Booth, who a short time later became Jackson's producer.

When Al Posen originated the idea of National Cartoonists Society tours to entertain American servicemen, he became the NCS Director of Overseas Shows.

He also founded at the university the Rockefeller-funded Institute of Economics in 1932 and became its Director of Research.

Traffic became his most acclaimed movie since Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and earned him an Academy Award for Best Director.

In September 1986, Square spun off from Den-Yu-Sha and became an independent company officially named Square Co., Ltd. Sakaguchi then became a full-time employee as the Director of Planning and Development of the company.

In 1996, he was promoted and subsequently became Director General of the Directorate for the Nuclear Power ( DG NP ).

Following the defeat of the Kirner government by the Liberal leader Jeff Kennett in late 1992, Bracks became Executive Director of the Victorian Printing Industry Training Board.

Mulder and Scully's boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ), also became a central character.

He became organist of the Octagon Chapel, Bath, a fashionable chapel in a well-known spa, in which town he was also Director of Public Concerts.

Once Zhu Di deposed Jianwen and became crowned as Yongle Emperor ( r. 1403-1424 ), Zheng He continued serving in his court as a Eunuch Grand Director ( 太監, tàijiàn ).

In 1936 the Radiation Laboratory became an official department of the University of California with Lawrence formally appointed its Director.

In 1991, he returned to UC-Berkeley as Professor of Mathematics and in 1993 became Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.

In 1985, he became Managing Director.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.