Semion Grossu
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Semion Grossu | |
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 Grossu in 1979 | |
| First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party | |
| In office 30 December 1980 – 16 November 1989 | |
| Premier | Ion Ustian Ivan Calin |
| Preceded by | Ivan Bodiul |
| Succeeded by | Petru Lucinschi |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR | |
| In office 1 August 1976 – 30 December 1980 | |
| Preceded by | Petru Pascari |
| Succeeded by | Ion Ustian |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 March 1934 Satu-Nou, Kingdom of Romania |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1961–1991) |
Semion Grossu (born 18 March 1934) is a Moldovan politician and businessman.
Biography
[edit]Grossu was born on 18 March 1934 in the commune of Satu-Nou, Cetatea Albă County, Kingdom of Romania (nowadays Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Ukraine). In 1961, he joined the Communist Party of Moldavia.
Grossu was the chairman of government of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (1 August 1976 – 30 December 1980) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Moldovan SSR (1 September 1976 – 31 December 1980). He later became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia (30 December 1980 – 16 November 1989). He was the final Moldavian SSR leader to espouse the Soviet party line; his successor, Petru Lucinschi, was identified with aspirations for Moldovan independence, which was finally achieved in 1991.
Although being the first Soviet leader of Moldova to be fluent in Romanian, Grossu preferred to speak Russian in public during his tenures.[1]
Since 1991, Semion Grossu has been the chairman of the Russo–Moldovan winemaking firm, Product Impex SRL. In a video posted on YouTube in 2009, filmed by the Moldovan news source Internet TV, Grossu said he did not consider himself a public figure.
References
[edit]- ^ Igor CAȘU, "Patterns of succession : Top party elite recruitment in Soviet Moldavia and centre-periphery relations, 1940–1991", in Li BENNICH-BJÖRKMAN and Saulius GRYBKAUSKAS (dir.), Moscow and the non-Russian Republics in the Soviet Union : nomenklatura, intelligentsia and centre-periphery relations, London, Routledge, 2022, p. 84.
- *** – Enciclopedia sovietică moldovenească (Chişinău, 1970–1977)
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- 1934 births
- Living people
- People from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion
- Members of the Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Members of the Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Seventh convocation members of the Soviet of the Union
- Ninth convocation members of the Soviet of the Union
- Tenth convocation members of the Soviet of the Union
- Eleventh convocation members of the Soviet of the Union
- Members of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
- First secretaries of the Communist Party of Moldavia
- Heads of government of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
- People's commissars and ministers of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Moldovan economists
- Moldovan businesspeople