Alexander Puzanov | |
Order: | Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR |
Term Start: | 20 October 1952 |
Term End: | 24 January 1956 |
Predecessor: | Boris Chernousov |
Successor: | Mikhail Yasnov |
Office3: | Candidate member of the 19th Presidium, Member of the CPSU Central Committee |
Term Start3: | 16 October 1952 |
Term End3: | 6 March 1953 |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1906 |
Birth Place: | Lezhkovka, Yuryevetsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
Nationality: | Soviet and Russian |
Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Resting Place: | Vagankovo Cemetery |
Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Пузанов; – 1 March 1998) was a Soviet and Russian statesman who was from 1952 to 1956 the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR, literally meaning Premier or Prime Minister.
Puzanov also had a diplomatic career. He served as the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to North Korea from 1957 to 1962, to Yugoslavia from 1962 to 1967, to Bulgaria from 1967 to 1972 and to Afghanistan from 1972 to 1979.