| Nikolai Baibakov Никола́й Байбако́в |
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| Chairman of the State Planning Committee | |
| In office 2 October 1965 – 14 October 1985 |
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| Premier | |
| Preceded by | Pyotr Lomako |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Talyzin |
| In office 25 May 1955 – 3 May 1957 |
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| Premier | Nikolai Bulganin |
| Preceded by | Maksim Saburov |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Kuzmin |
| Minister of Oil Industry | |
| In office 28 December 1948 – 25 May 1955 |
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| Premier | Joseph Stalin Nikolai Bulganin |
| Preceded by | Post reestablished |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Evseenko |
| In office 30 November 1944 – 4 March 1946 |
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| Premier | Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Ivan Sedin |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished (post reestablished in 1948) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 March 1911 Sabunchu, Baku Oblast 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 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).