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Nikita Khrushchev

Infobox officeholder | name = Nikita Khrushchev | native_name = | native_name_lang = ru | image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B0628-0015-035, Nikita S. Chruschtschow.jpg | image_size = | caption = Nikita Khrushchev in East Berlin in June 1963 observing East German leader Walter Ulbricht's 70th birthday | citizenship = Soviet | religion = | order = First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | term_start = 14 September 1953 | term_end = 14 October 1964 | predecessor = Joseph Stalin (as General Secretary) Georgy Malenkov (de facto) | successor = Leonid Brezhnev | order2 = 7th Premier of the Soviet Union | president2 = Kliment VoroshilovLeonid BrezhnevAnastas Mikoyan | 2blankname2 = First Deputies | 2namedata2 = | term_start2 = 27 March 1958 | term_end2 = 14 October 1964 | predecessor2 = Nikolai Bulganin | successor2 = Alexei Kosygin | order3 = First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolsheviks) | term_start3 = 26 December 1947 | term_end3 = 16 December 1949 | predecessor3 = Lazar Kaganovich | successor3 = Leonid Melnikov | term_start4 = 27 January 1938 | term_end4 = 3 March 1947 | predecessor4 = Stanislav Kosior | successor4 = Lazar Kaganovich | birth_name = Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev | birth_date = | birth_place = Kalinovka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date = | death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | resting_place = Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow | alma_mater = Industrial Academy | spouse = | children = | party = CPSU (1918–1964) | signature = Nikita Khrushchev Signature2.svg | signature_alt = A scrawled "Н Хрущёв" | allegiance = Soviet Union | branch = Red Army | serviceyears = 1941–45 | rank = Lieutenant General | commands = Soviet Armed Forces | battles = World War II | awards = collapsible list|title=| | footnotes = Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev' ( – 11 September 1971) was a Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.

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