Nikolai Baibakov

Nikolai Baibakov Никола́й Байбако́в


Chairman of the State Planning Committee
In office 2 October 1965 – 14 October 1985
Premier	served under Alexei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Pyotr Lomako
Succeeded by	Nikolai Talyzin
In office 25 May 1955 – 3 May 1957
Premier	Nikolai Bulganin
Preceded by	Maksim Saburov
Succeeded by	Joseph Kuzmin
Minister of Oil Industry
In office 28 December 1948 – 25 May 1955
Premier	Joseph Stalin Nikolai Bulganin
Preceded by	Post reestablished
Succeeded by	Mikhail Evseenko
In office 30 November 1944 – 4 March 1946
Premier	Joseph Stalin
Preceded by	Ivan Sedin
Succeeded by	Post abolished (post reestablished in 1948)

Personal details
Born	(1911-03-06)6 March 1911 Sabunchu, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	31 March 2008(2008-03-31) (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 the 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 during the Nazi invasion. Then he was appointed as narkom of the oil Industry of the USSR in 1944 serving until 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).

Honours and awards

Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class (March 7, 2006) - for outstanding services to the state
Six Orders of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice
Lenin Prize (1963) - for the discovery and development of gas-condensate fields
Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS, established in 1996 was awarded the Medal of the Academy)
Academician of the Academy of Cosmonautics
Laureate of the "Russian National Olympus"
Honorary Citizen of Ishimbai (Bashkortostan) - as an active participant in the development of Bashkir oil industry (made with such an initiative in 1940)
Istiglal Order (Azerbaijan)

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