Viktor Chernomyrdin

Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин) (born April 9, 1938) is a Russian politician.

He became a member of the CPSU in 1961. From 1982 to 1985, he was deputy Minister of the Natural gas industries of the Soviet Union, and in 1985, he became Minister of gas industries. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he was the Prime Minister of Russia from 1992 to 1998. Since 2001, he has been Russia's ambassador to Ukraine. He is also an Oligarch.

Viktor Chernomyrdin is a target of numerous jokes for his notoriously grammatically incorrect speech. One of his expressions "We wanted to do better, but it came out as always" became a popular proverb.


Preceded by:
Yegor Gaidar (acting) 		Prime Minister of Russia
(First term) 		Succeeded by:
Sergei Kiriyenko


Preceded by:
Sergei Kiriyenko 		Prime Minister of Russia
(Acting) 		Succeeded by:
Sergei Stepashin




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