Early Life
Podgorny was born on 18 February 1903 in Karlovka, Russian Empire to a Ukrainian working-class family. Podgorny started work at the age of 17 as a student at the mechanical workshops in Karlovka. After the Russian Revolution Podgorny became one of the founders of the Karlovka Komsomol. He served as a Secretary of the Komsomol from 1921 to 1923. In 1926 Podgorny graduated from a local workers' school, and graduated from the Kiev Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931. In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks). Following his graduation Podgorny started working in the sugar industry. He was promoted to Deputy Chief Engineer of Vinnytsia in 1937 and was promoted in 1939 as the Chief Engineer of the Kamenetz-Podolsk Oblast sugar trusts. By the end of 1939 Podgorny had become Deputy People's Commissar for Food Industry of the Ukrainian SSR. The next year Podgorny was appointed Deputy People's Commissar for Food Industry of the Soviet Union.
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