Alexander Melnikov (politician)

Alexander Melnikov
First Secretary of the Kemerovo Regional Committee
In office
17 November 1988  22 September 1990
Preceded byVadim Bakatin
Succeeded byAnatoly Zaitsev
Head of the Construction Department of the Central Committee
In office
1985  30 September 1988
Preceded byBoris Yeltsin
Succeeded byPost abolished
First Secretary of the Tomsk Regional Committee
In office
29 April 1983  31 January 1986
Preceded byYegor Ligachyov
Succeeded byViktor Zorkaltsev
Full member of the 27th Central Committee
In office
6 March 1986  14 July 1990
Personal details
Born
Alexander Grigoryevich Melnikov

(1930-10-20)20 October 1930
Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died25 December 2011(2011-12-25) (aged 81)
Moscow, Russia
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1957–1991)
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (1993–2011)

Alexander Grigoryevich Melnikov (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Мельников; 20 October 1930 – 25 December 2011) was a Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politician; Communist Party high-ranking official in 1986–1991; the First Secretary (mayor) of Siberian town of Seversk, the First Secretary (governor) of Tomsk (1983–1986), and Kemerovo regions. In 1990–2000's – head of CIS Ministry Managing department, advisor of the Union State Secretary. One of the leaders of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.