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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 the
Ukraine. He is also an Oligarch.
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