Nikolay Kruchina

Nikolay Kruchina Николай Кручина
Administrator of Affairs of the Central Committee
In office September 1982 – 26 August 1991
Preceded by	Georgy Pavlov
Succeeded by	Post abolished
First Secretary of the Tselinograd Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
In office November 1965 – 4 April 1978
Preceded by	Vasily Demidenko
Succeeded by	Nikolay Morozov
Full member of the 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th Central Committee
In office 5 March 1976 – 26 August 1991
Candidate member of the 24th Central Committee
In office 9 April 1971 – 5 March 1976
Personal details
Born	(1928-05-14)14 May 1928 Novopokrovka, Khabarsky District, Siberian Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	26 August 1991(1991-08-26) (aged 63) Moscow, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Suicide by falling from height
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Nikolay Yefimovich Kruchina (Russian: Николай Ефимович Кручина; 14 May 1928 – 26 August 1991), was a top Soviet communist official, the administrator of affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) since 1983 and until his death, effectively the party's chief treasurer, responsible for its enormous assets (popularly dubbed as the party's gold, Russian: золото Партии) estimated to be worth nearly $9 billion, which have never been located since.^[1]