Nikolai Baibakov
| Nikolai Baibakov Никола́й Байбако́в | |
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| Chairman of the State Planning Committee | |
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In office 2 October 1965 – 14 October 1985 | |
| Premier | |
| Preceded by | Pyotr Lomako |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Talyzin |
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In office 25 May 1955 – 3 May 1957 | |
| Premier | Nikolai Bulganin |
| Preceded by | Maksim Saburov |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Kuzmin |
| Minister of Oil Industry | |
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In office 28 December 1948 – 25 May 1955 | |
| Premier |
Joseph Stalin Nikolai Bulganin |
| Preceded by | Post reestablished |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Evseenko |
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In office 30 November 1944 – 4 March 1946 | |
| Premier | Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Ivan Sedin |
| Succeeded by |
Post abolished (post reestablished in 1948) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 March 1911 Sabunchu, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died |
31 March 2008 (aged 97) Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Nationality | 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 the 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 during the Nazi invasion. Then he was appointed as narkom of the oil Industry of the USSR in 1944 serving until 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
- 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
- Inside Gosplan
- Baibakov's removal from office
- Nikolai K. Baibakov, a Top Soviet Economic Official, Dies at 97