A monument to the former secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Egor Ligachyov was erected in Tomsk

In Tomsk, opposite the building of the regional administration, a monument was erected to the former secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Egor Ligachyov. He died in May 2021 in Moscow at the age of 101.

As vtomske.ru writes, the alley where the monument is located also now bears the name of Ligachev. The ceremonial opening of the monument took place on November 29, the birthday of the former secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Ligachev’s name is connected, in particular, with the anti-alcohol campaign of 1985, the publication of Nina Andreeva’s letter in 1988 in defense of Stalin, known as the “manifesto of anti-perestroika forces”, and, finally, the conflict with Boris Yeltsin, thanks to which Ligachev gained the reputation of an opponent of perestroika .

On March 11, 1985, Egor Ligachev supported the candidacy of Mikhail Gorbachev in the election of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, saying that his “nomination will cause a sense of pride in our people, will raise the authority of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU.” Later, he facilitated the transfer to Moscow of the First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, Boris Yeltsin.

In 1985, he joined the top political leadership of the USSR – the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Member of the Politburo from April 23, 1985 to July 13, 1990. In 1985–1988, as secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, he was responsible for ideological issues. In fact, he was the second person in the party after General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. In September 1988, at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Egor Ligachev was removed from handling ideological issues and approved as the chairman of the commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU on issues of agrarian policy.