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About Fyodor Kulakov
- Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov (Russian: ????? ????????? ???????) (4 February 1918 – 17 July 1978) was a Soviet-Russian statesman during the Cold War. Kulakov served as Stavropol First Secretary from 1960 until 1964, immediately following Nikita Khrushchev's ouster.
- During his First Secretaryship in Stavropol, Kulakov met Mikhail Gorbachev; Kulakov became Gorbachev's mentor, and when he left his Stavropol First Secretaryship to enter national politics, Gorbachev took over his former office.
- Kulakov was elected to several important seats in the 1960s.
- In 1971, he was elected to the Political Bureau (Politburo).
- He became a leading figure of Soviet leadership, and impressed Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to such an extent that Western commentators believed that Kulakov would become Brezhnev's successor.
- This did not happen since Kulakov died in 1978, four years before Brezhnev.
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