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Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov 

When enumerating the leaders of the Soviet State, the name of Georgy Malenkov (1901–1988) always remains in the shadow of such historical figures as Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev.

Most often Malenkov is not considered the leader of the USSR at all, despite the fact that after the death of the "Leader of the Peoples", it was Malenkov, and not Khrushchev, who initially got the main political power. 

Childhood and Youth 

Georgy Malenkov was born on November 23 (December 6), 1901 in Orenburg in the family of a railway employee.

On the father's side, he belonged to the nobility, but his mother came from the commoners.

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Little is known about Malenkov's childhood and youth — mainly from official reports and a biography written by his son Andrei Malenkov. This biography, among other things, reports that his grandfather was a colonel, and his grand-uncle served in the navy as the rear admiral. Apparen