Avraami Zavenyagin

Lieutenant-General Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin (1 May 1901, Uzlovaya - 31 December 1956; his first name is also sometimes given as Avram or Abraham) was a leading figure in the Soviet nuclear projects of the 1940s and 1950s.^[1][2][3] A protégé of Lavrenti Beria,^[4] Zavenyagin survived the purge after the death of Joseph Stalin because of a long friendship with Nikita Khrushchev which dated back to the 1920s. He died of a heart attack. During the Krushchev era, for two years he led Soviet Ministry of Medium Machine Building, responsible for nuclear weapons production. Later on, this post was given to Mikhail Pervukhin.

References

1. ↑ Antony Beevor, The fall of Berlin, 1945, 2002
2. ↑ Richard Lee Miller, Under the cloud: the decades of nuclear testing , 1986
3. ↑ George A. Lopez and Nancy J. Myers, Peace and security: the next generation, 1997
4. ↑ Richard Lee Miller, Under the cloud: the decades of nuclear testing, 1986