Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

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Gleb Maximilianovich Krzhizhanovsky (Russian: Кржижановский, Глеб Максимилианович, January 24, 1872, Samara — March 31, 1959, Moscow) was a Soviet economist and a state figure. Academician of USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), Hero of Socialist Labour (1957).

In 1910th runed the construction works of an electric plant near Moscow, proposed an idea of a hydroelectric plant in Saratov.

In 1920 appointed as a Chief of Russia Electrification Commission, was in the lead of some parts of GOELRO plan, gave a report of this plan on the VIII Congress of Soviets (December 22, 1920).

13 August 1921 - 11 December 1923 - Chief of Gosplan for his first term, succeeded by Alexander Tsuryupa

18 November 1925 - 10 November 1930) - Chief of Gosplan for his second term

He's also considered as an author of a revolutionary song Warsawyanka (An evil whirls are waving above us..., see (Russian)Варшавянка). He wrote it in 1897 in Butirka jail, where he sat because of his participation in the Union of fighting for liberation of the worker class together with Lenin.