| Office: | Head of the Economic and Social Policy Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the Central Committee |
| Term Start: | 14 July 1990 |
| Term End: | 29 August 1991 |
| Predecessor: | Vladimir Shimko |
| Successor: | Office abolished |
| Office1: | Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Government of the Russian SFSR |
| President1: | Vitaly Vorotnikov |
| Predecessor1: | Vitaly Vorotnikov |
| Successor1: | Ivan Silayev |
| Term Start1: | October 1988 |
| Term End1: | June 1990 |
| Predecessor2: | Vitaly Fedorchuk |
| Successor2: | Vadim Bakatin |
| Term Start2: | January 1986 |
| Term End2: | 10 October 1988 |
| Birth Name: | Aleksandr Vladimirovich Vlasov |
| Birth Date: | 20 January 1932 |
| Birth Place: | Babushkin, Buryat-Mongol ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1956-1991) |
| Alma Mater: | Irkutsk Mining Metallurgical Institute |
| Nationality: | Russian |
Aleksandr Vlasov (Russian: Александр Владимирович Власов; 20 January 1932 - 9 June 2002) was a Soviet politician, who held different cabinet posts, including interior minister and prime minister. He was the last communist prime minister of Russia,[1] and a close ally of Mikhail Gorbachev.[2]
Vlasov was born into a Russian family in Babushkin, Buryat-Mongol ASSR, Russian SFSR (now Buryatia, Russia) on 20 January 1932.[3] He attended the Irkutsk Mining Metallurgical Institute and graduated with a degree in mining engineering in 1954.[3]
Vlasov worked as a foreman in an eastern Siberia mine.[4] He left the job less than in a year and joined the Communist Party in 1956.[5] [6] Then he began to work in the Komsomol.[6]
In 1965, Vlasov was named as second secretary of Yakut party obkom.[3] He also worked a member of the military council of the North Caucasian military district when Gorbachev was working there.[5] Vlasov began to work at the central committee of the Communist Party in Moscow from 1972.[3] [7] He was promoted to first secretary of the party in 1975.[3] Then Vlasov became first secretary of the party in Rostov in southern Russia in 1984.[8]
In January 1986, Vlasov was appointed interior minister, replacing Vitaly Fedorchuk in the post.[9] [10] Then Vlasov was appointed to the Politburo as a non-voting member in late September 1988.[11] [12] His tenure as interior minister lasted until 10 October 1988.[13] Vadim Bakatin replaced him as interior minister.[14]
Vlasov was elected as prime minister of the Russian Republic by the Supreme Soviet on 3 October 1988.[15] [16] He succeeded Vitaly Vorotnikov in the post.[8]
Vlasov was nominated for presidency of the Supreme Soviet in May 1990.[17] However, he lost the election to Boris Yeltsin who outpolled him, 535 votes to 467, receiving just 4 votes more than the minimum required for election.[18] [19]