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Nikolai Nikolaevich Organov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Органов; 14 February [ O.S. 27 February ] 1901 - 5 May 1982) was a Soviet politician who most notably served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from November 26, 1959 until December 20, 1962.

Early life
Organov was born into a working-class family in Zaraysk, Moscow Oblast, in 1901. As a youth, he worked maintaining telegraph lines, before spending a year working as a clerk for the Russian Communist Youth Union (Komsomol) in Yuryev-Polsky, Vladimir Oblast from 1918. In 1919, Organov joined the Red Army, where he served as a krasnoarmeyets until 1924.

Early political career
In 1924, Organov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and returned to the Komsomol in Yuryev-Polsky as secretary, before successive promotions to Chairman of the Yuryev-Polsky city council in 1927. In 1929, Organov became Chairman of Alexandrov city council, in Vladimir Oblast. After other administrative positions in Karabanovo, Kineshma, and Nekouz, Organov joined the Yaroslavl Regional Committee of the CPSU as head of the Agricultural Department in 1937. Whilst working for the CPSU in Yaroslavl, Organov was recruited into the regional NKVD troika in October 1937, and joined a small team of five regional politicians responsible for orchestrating Stalin's Great Terror in the Yaroslavl region.

Later life
By 1940, Organov had established himself as a reliable and versatile member of the Communist Party, holding various positions before briefly returning to the army during World War II as a voenkom (a Russian portmanteau of the words voyennjy komissar, meaning military commissar) between 1941 and 1942. In 1943, Organov joined the Primorsky Regional Committee of the CPSU, initially as 3rd Secretary but was soon promoted to 1st Secretary, the position of highest authority in the Primorsky Krai, in 1947.

Organov left his position in Primorsky Krai in 1952 to become 1st Secretary of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, and a few months later also became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU on 14 October 1952, and remained there until his retirement. Under Stalin's leadership, the Central Committee had become largely a symbolic organ that was subordinate to the Political Bureau (Politburo).

In his position as 1st Secretary of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Committee, Organov was part of the plan "Let's Turn Siberia into a Land of High Culture" (prevratim Sibir' v kraj vysokoj kul'tury), which prioritised cultural development in Krasnoyarsk and surrounding regions in Siberia. Under the initiative, a television center, two cinemas, an art gallery and a library were opened in the city of Krasnoyarsk during Organov's tenure as 1st Secretary of the Regional Committee.

Organov left Siberia for Moscow in 1958 to become the vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, and then on 26 November 1959, became the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the de jure highest office of the RSFSR within the Soviet Union.

In December 1962, the Soviet news agency Tass reported that Organov had been relieved of his position as Chairman of the RSFSR in connection with his transfer to other work, and he became the ambassador of the Soviet Union to Bulgaria on 12 January 1963, a position which he held until 1967.

Organov's final political position was as the first and only chairman of the Commission on Trips Abroad, which worked with the CPSU Central Committee. The position was abolished in 1973 when the committee merged with the Department of Foreign Personnel

Death
Organov retired in 1973 and lived with his wife in Moscow until his death in Moscow on 5 May 1982. He is buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.

Awards
Order of Lenin (3 times)

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Red Banner

Order of the Patriotic War