Kirilenko, Andrei Pavlovich, << kih rih LEHNG koh, ahn DRAY puhv lawv yihch >> (1906-1990), was an official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1956, he became a member of the party’s Central Committee. In 1962, he was made a member of the Politburo, the party’s policymaking body. In 1966, he was named to the Secretariat of the Central Committee. In 1982, Kirilenko resigned from the Politburo and the Secretariat, but he remained in the Central Committee until his death on May 12, 1990.
Kirilenko was born on Sept. 8, 1906, in Alekseevka, near Voronezh. He joined the Communist Party in 1931. He graduated from an aviation institute in 1936.
