Nikolai Baibakov

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Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov (born March 6, 1911 in Baku, Azerbaijan) was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished the secondary school in 1928 and entered Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute. 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 to the chief of an oilfield production department in an industrial complex in 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 Oil Industry of the USSR in 1944 to 1946. Because of his success in the planning of the oil industry sector of Soviet Union and experience in economics, he was appointed as the head of Gosplan (State Planning Committee) of the USSR two times (1953-1957, 1965-1985).

Preceded by Maksim Saburov	Chairman of the State Commission for Advance Planning of the National Economy 1953–1957	Succeeded by Iosif Kuzmin
Preceded by Pyotr Lomako	Chairman of the State Planning Committee 1965–1985	Succeeded by Nikolai Talyzin