- Nikolai Baibakov
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Nikolai Baibakov
Никола́й Байбако́в
Chairman of the State Planning Committee In office
2 October 1965 – 14 October 1985Premier - Alexei Kosygin
- Nikolai Tikhonov
- Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by Pyotr Lomako Succeeded by Nikolai Talyzin In office
25 May 1955 – 3 May 1957Premier Nikolai Bulganin Preceded by Maksim Saburov Succeeded by Joseph Kuzmin Minister of Oil Industry In office
28 December 1948 – 25 May 1955Premier Joseph Stalin
Nikolai BulganinPreceded by Post reestablished Succeeded by Mikhail Evseenko In office
30 November 1944 – 4 March 1946Premier Joseph Stalin Preceded by Ivan Sedin Succeeded by Post abolished
(post reestablished in 1948)Personal details Born 6 March 1911
Sabunchu, Baku Oblast Russian EmpireDied 31 March 2008 (aged 97)
Moscow, Russian FederationNationality Soviet/Russian Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Байбако́в) (6 March 1911, Sabunchu, near Baku, Russian Empire – 31 March 2008, Moscow) was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished secondary school in 1928 and entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, from which he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer. In 1935, he was drafted into the armed forces. After completing his military service, he was appointed chief of an oilfield production department in an industrial complex in the USSR. Later, he was promoted to chief engineer, then general director. He was in charge of evacuating oil industry facilities to the eastern regions in the Nazi invasion era. Then he was appointed as narkom of the oil Industry of the USSR in 1944 till 1946. Because of his success in the planning of the oil industry sector of the Soviet Union and experience in economics, he was appointed as the head of Gosplan (State Planning Committee) of the USSR twice (1955–1957, 1965–1985).
Honours and awards
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class (March 7, 2006) - for outstanding services to the state
- Six Orders of Lenin
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice
- Lenin Prize (1963) - for the discovery and development of gas-condensate fields
- Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS, established in 1996 was awarded the Medal of the Academy)
- Academician of the Academy of Cosmonautics
- Laureate of the "Russian National Olympus"
- Honorary Citizen of Ishimbai (Bashkortostan) - as an active participant in the development of Bashkir oil industry (made with such an initiative in 1940)
- Istiglal Order (Azerbaijan)
External links
Categories:- People from Baku
- Azerbaijani people of Russian descent
- 1911 births
- 2008 deaths
- Soviet economists
- Marxist economists
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union rank-and-file
- Soviet engineers
- Heroes of Socialist Labour
- Recipients of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin, five times
- Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice
- Lenin Prize winners
- Recipients of the Istiglal Order
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