Augusts Voss

{{Short description|Latvian Soviet politician (1919–1994)}}

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| name = Augusts Voss

| native_name = {{lang|ru|Август Восс}}

| image = Augusts Voss.jpg

| citizenship = Soviet

| office = First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia

| term_start = 15 April 1966

| term_end = 14 April 1984

| predecessor = Arvīds Pelše

| successor = Boris Pugo

| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|10|30|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Omsk Governorate, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|02|10|1919|10|30|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russian Federation

| party = Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940–1990)

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Augusts{{efn|Also transliterated as August and Avgust.}} Eduardovich Voss ({{langx|ru|Август Эдуардович Восс}}; 30 October 1919, Saltykovo – 10 February 1994, Moscow) was a Soviet politician of Latvian origin and party functionary. Before World War II he worked as a school teacher. In 1940, he was mobilized into the Red Army and served as a politruk. From 1945, he served as a party apparatchik in Latvia. From 1966 till 1984, he was First Secretary (later: General Secretary) of the Communist Party of Latvia{{cite web|url=http://countrystudies.us/latvia/3.htm|title=Latvia: A Country Study. |last=Walter R. Iwaskiw, ed.|year=1995|publisher=Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress|accessdate=2009-07-10}} and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1971 till 1990. From 1984 till 1989, he was Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities, upper chamber of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.{{Cite web|url=http://whp057.narod.ru/sssr.htm|title=СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК|date=September 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928130334/http://whp057.narod.ru/sssr.htm|archive-date=28 September 2011}}

He did not return to Latvia and died in Moscow in 1994, where he is also buried.