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Nikita Khrushchev Birthplace

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In his book on Khrushchev, Taubman states how to reach the home: "A short walk from the square [of Kalinovka] (past the palace of culture, along the edge of the lake, down a road (next to which goats are grazing) leads to an older part of the town, where a tombstone like slab identifies the place where "Nikita Khrushchev spent his childhood." The house where he was born has long since been torn down, but the adobe-walled cottage that stands on the site is neat, clean, and ready for inspection." 

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Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15 [O.S. April 3] 1894 – September 11, 1971) led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.

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