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Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (Russian: Сергей Никитич Хрущёв; 2 July 1935 – 18 June 2020) was a Soviet-born American engineer and the second son of the Cold War-era Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with his wife Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva.
In 1935 she gave birth to their son Sergei and in 1937 to their daughter Elena, who died aged 35 due to poor health. [1] [2] In 1938 Khrushchev was appointed as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and his family returned to Kyiv, but only three years later they were evacuated to Samara due to the German invasion of the Soviet ...
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His parents, Sergei Khrushchev and Kseniya Khrushcheva, were poor Russian peasants, [5] and had a daughter two years Nikita's junior, Irina. [2] Sergei Khrushchev was employed in a number of positions in the Donbas area of far eastern Ukraine, working as a railwayman, as a miner, and laboring in a brick factory.
Khrushchev then tried to draw Malenkov to his side, warning that "Beria is sharpening his knives". [73] Khrushchev opposed the alliance between Beria and Malenkov, but he was initially unable to challenge them. Khrushchev's opportunity came in June 1953 when a spontaneous uprising against the East German communist regime broke out in East Berlin.
Operation Osoaviakhim was a secret Soviet operation in which more than 2,500 German specialists (scientists, engineers and technicians who worked in several areas) from companies and institutions relevant to military and economic policy in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (SBZ) and Berlin, as well as around 4,000 more family members, totalling more than 6,000 people, were taken from ...
On 11 March 1943, Khrushchev's plane, a YaK-7B fighter, [3] was shot down near Zhizdra and he was presumably killed. The pilots of his squadron saw his plane explode and disintegrate in the air after being hit by fire from a German Focke Fw 190, [4] allegedly while attempting to shield another pilot with his own plane. [5]
Joseph Stalin's purges and massacres between 1936 and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany (Great Purge) had about one million victims. This list includes some of the most prominent victims along with the date of their deaths. Except where otherwise stated, the date is that on which the individual was executed by shooting.