Joseph Kuzmin

Joseph Kuzmin
Ио́сиф Кузьми́н
Chairman of the State Planning Committee
In office
10 May 1957 – 20 March 1959
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Preceded by Nikolai Baibakov
Succeeded by Alexei Kosygin
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office
3 May 1957 – 31 March 1958
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Preceded by Maksim Saburov
Succeeded by Frol Kozlov
Personal details
Born 19 May 1910(1910-05-19)
Astrakhan, Imperial Russia
Died 12 January 1996(1996-01-12) (aged 85)
Moscow, Russian Federation
Nationality Russian (1905–1922), Soviet (1922–1991), Russian
Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Joseph I. Kuzmin (Russian: Ио́сиф Ио́сифович Кузьми́н; Astrakhan , 19 May [O.S. 1 June] 1910 – Moscow, 12 January 1996) was a Soviet-Russian statesman who was First Deputy of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1957 to 1958 and Chairman of the State Planning Committee from 1957 to 1959.