title: Alexei Kosygin
text: Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (;  – 18 December 1980) was a Russian man who was Premier of the Soviet Union.  He was a friend of the previous Prime Minister, Nikita Khrushchev. He and Leonid Brezhnev led the country together until he died.
  
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  1904 births
  1980 deaths
  Heads of government of the Soviet Union
  Recipients of the Order of Lenin