Dmitry Polyansky


Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky was a Soviet-Russian statesman who was First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1973. From 1958 to 1962 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR, equivalent to a Governor or Premier of one of the 15 soviet socialist republics that comprised the Soviet Union.
Polyansky was awarded four Orders of Lenin. His wife Galina died in 2005.