What is Alexei Kosygin?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Alexei Kosygin | image = File:A. Kosygin 1967.jpg | caption = Kosygin in 1967 | office = 8th [[Premier of the USSR|Premier of the Soviet Union]] | term = 15 October 1964 – 23 October 1980 | president = [[Anastas Mikoyan]]<br> [[Nikolai Podgorny]]<br> [[Leonid Brezhnev]] | deputy = First Deputy Premiers - <br> Dmitriy Ustinov<br>Kirill Mazurov<br>Dmitry Polyansky<br>Nikolai Tikhonov | leader = Leonid Brezhnev | predecessor = Nikita Khrushchev | successor = Nikolai Tikhonov | office1 = [[First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union]] | term1 = 4 May 1960 – 15 October 1964 | president1 = [[Kliment Voroshilov]] | premier1 = [[Nikita Khrushchev]] | predecessor1 = Frol Kozlov | successor1 = Dmitriy Ustinov | office2 = Chairman of the [[Gosplan|State Planning Committee]] | term2 = 20 March 1959 – 4 May 1960 | president2 = [[Kliment Voroshilov]] | premier2 = [[Nikita Khrushchev]] | predecessor2 = Joseph Kuzmin | successor2 = Vladimir Novikov | office3 = [[List of heads of government of Russia|Prime Minister of the Russian SFSR]] | term3 = 23 June 1943 – 23 March 1946 | president3 = Mikhail Kalinin<br>Nikolai Shvernik | premier3 = [[Joseph Stalin]] | predecessor3 = Ivan Khokhlov | successor4 = Mikhail Rodionov | office4 = Full member of the 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, & 25th CPSU Politburo | term4 = 4 May 1960 – 21 October 1980 | term5 = 4 September 1948 – 16 October 1952 | office6 = Candidate member of the 18th, 19th, & 20th CPSU PolitburoIn office | term6 = 29 June 1957 – 4 May 1960 | term7 = 16 October 1952 – 5 March 1953 | term8 = 18 March 1946 – 4 September 1948 | birth_date = 21 February