People's Commissars and Ministers of the Aviation Industry of the USSR. People's Commissars and Ministers of Aviation Industry of the USSR People's Commissar of Aviation

SHAKHURIN Alexey Ivanovich (12(25) February 1904,With. Mikhailovskoe, Moscow province - July 3, 1975, Moscow) - first secretary of the Yaroslavl regional committee and city committee of the CPSU (b) from June 1938 to January 1939.

A.I. Shakhurin was born into a peasant family. From 1917 he was an apprentice electrician, in 1919 -1921. worked as an electrician for the Podolsk city department of public utilities, and from 1921 as a milling operator at the Manometer plant in Moscow.

In 1925 he joined the Communist Party. In 1925-1927 was the head of the political and educational department, secretary of the Baumansky district committee of the Komsomol of Moscow. Since 1927 - representative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and deputy chairman of the All-Russian Committee for the Promotion of Industrial and Economic Education under the People's Commissariat of Foreign and Domestic Trade of the USSR. At the same time, in 1927-1932. was a student at the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute. Upon graduation, he began working as the head of the production organization department of aircraft plant No. 82 in Moscow, from 1933 he was a senior engineer, then the head of the research department of the Air Force Academy. N. E. Zhukovsky. Since 1937 - party organizer of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks at plant No. 1 named after Aviakhim in Moscow.

From June 1938 - first secretary (acting for the first two months) of the Yaroslavl regional committee and city committee of the CPSU (b). From January 1939 to January 1940 - first secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st convocation (1938). Member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1939 - 1946. From January 1940 to January 1946 was People's Commissar of the USSR Aviation Industry. He established the production of aircraft, ensured the introduction of new types of military equipment, and made a significant contribution to achieving victory in the Patriotic War.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 8, 1941, for outstanding services in the field of organizing and implementing mass production of new types of combat aircraft, Alexei Ivanovich Shakhurin was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle Gold Medal.

In 1944, Shakhurin was awarded the rank of Colonel General of the Aviation Engineering Service.

In February 1946 he was appointed deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

In April 1946, he was arrested on trumped-up charges of “abuse of power” and “production of non-standard, substandard and incomplete products.” In the verdict, A.I. Shakhurin was accused of allegedly “for a long time producing aircraft and engines with large design and production deficiencies and, in collusion with the command of the Air Force, putting them into service with the Air Force, as a result of which an accident occurred in the aviation units a large number of accidents and catastrophes, pilots were killed, and many defective aircraft accumulated that could not be used in battles with the Germans...” On May 11, 1946 he was sentenced to 7 years in labor camp.

Rehabilitated and released on May 29, 1953. On June 2, 1953, all awards and titles were returned. Since August 1953 - Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR. In 1954-1956. - First Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR. In May-July 1957 - Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Economic Relations with People's Democracy Countries. Since July 1957 - Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations. Since 1959 - personal pensioner of union significance.

Awards: Hero of Socialist Labor (1941), two Orders of Lenin, Order of the Red Star, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov 1st degree, Order of Kutuzov 1st degree, Order of the Red Banner of Labor, medals.

The son of A.I. Shakhurin, Vladimir (born in Moscow in 1928), studied at the elite 175th school, where the children of high-ranking Soviet officials and party functionaries studied. Vladimir's closest friends were Sergo and Vano Mikoyan (sons of Politburo member Anastas Mikoyan), Leonid Redens (son of the executed State Security Commissioner of the 1st rank Stanislav Redens, brother-in-law of Joseph Stalin), Artyom Khmelnitsky (son of General Rafail Khmelnitsky), Pyotr Bakulev (son of the famous surgeon Alexander Bakulev), Felix Kirpichnikov (son of Deputy Chairman of the USSR State Planning Committee Pyotr Kirpichnikov).

During the war years (!), these high-ranking kids came up with an organization called... “The Fourth Reich.” Members of the organization created a “shadow government” of the USSR, the “head” of which was Volodya Shakhurin. Members of the “government” called each other Reichsführer and Gruppenführer.

Adults learned about the “Fourth Reich” thanks to a tragic incident. On June 3, 1943, on the stairs of the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, Vladimir Shakhurin, using a Walter pistol, shot and killed the daughter of diplomat Konstantin Umansky, Nina, his classmate, who, according to some sources, was also a member of the Fourth Reich organization. There is a version that Vladimir was in love with Nina and did not want her to go to Mexico with her parents. Then Shakhurin shot himself with the same pistol. Vladimir and Nina were buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. Their graves are located not far from each other.

Investigators established that the Walter pistol from which Shakhurin shot belonged to Anastas Mikoyan’s son, Vano. He and his younger brother Sergo were arrested, admitted to creating an “anti-Soviet” organization and named all its members. They were also arrested.

All members of the "Fourth Reich" declared that the "organization" was just child's play. However, on July 23, 1943, eight members of the organization were placed in the internal prison of the NKGB. The investigator in their case was Lev Vlodzimirsky. On December 18, 1943, the Mikoyan brothers, Leonid Barabanov, Armand Hammer, Pyotr Bakulev, Leonid Redens, Artyom Khmelnitsky and Felix Kirpichnikov were sentenced without any trial to deportation to different cities of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia for a period of one year. The verdict was signed by People's Commissar of State Security Vsevolod Merkulov and Prosecutor General of the USSR Konstantin Gorshenin.

Sh Akhurin Alexey Ivanovich - People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR.
Born on February 12 (25), 1904 in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Podolsk district, Moscow province (now Moscow region). The son of a peasant. Russian.
From 1919 he worked as an electrician in Podolsk, and from 1921 as a milling machine operator at the Manometer plant in Moscow. In 1925, he was transferred to Komsomol work - secretary of the Baumansky district committee of the Komsomol of Moscow, then worked in the People's Commissariat of Trade of the RSFSR. Graduated from the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute in 1932. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1925.
After graduating from the institute in 1932, he was assigned as the head of the production organization department of an aircraft plant. Since 1933 - in the Red Army. In 1933 - 1938 he served in the research and educational departments of the Air Force Engineering Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky. In February - April 1938, party organizer of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks at plant No. 1 "Aviakhim".
During a period of acute personnel shortages caused by mass repressions in the late 1930s, he was promoted to major leadership positions. In May 1938, Shakhurin was appointed 1st Secretary of the Yaroslavl Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and from January 1939 - 1st Secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Since March 1939 - member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
On January 10, 1940, Shakhurin was appointed People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR. In this post, he did a lot of work to create new aircraft factories, reconstruct previously existing ones, coordinate the work of design bureaus and enterprises, launch a series of new aircraft models, organize the prompt elimination of defects and deficiencies identified in numerous military operations of the pre-war period.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Shakhurin organized the urgent evacuation of aviation and related enterprises to the Volga region and Siberia. At the same time, Stalin set him the task of increasing the production of combat aircraft every day. These tasks were successfully solved: in the second quarter of 1941, the production of combat aircraft amounted to 27 units per day, in the third quarter of 1941, in the conditions of the outbreak of war - 61 combat aircraft per day. For the successful completion of this task, Shakhurin was nominated for the highest award of the Motherland.
"For outstanding achievements in the field of organization and implementation of mass production of new types of combat aircraft", by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 8, 1941 Alexey Ivanovich Shakhurin awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the presentation of the Hammer and Sickle gold medal and the Order of Lenin.
In the subsequent years of the war, under the leadership of People's Commissar Shakhurin, a sharp increase in aircraft production was carried out. The production of domestic combat aircraft during the war is characterized by the following indicators: 1941 (July-December) - 8.2 thousand; 1942 - 21.7 thousand; 1943 - 29.9 thousand; 1944 - 33.2 thousand; 1945 (January-August) - 19.1 thousand combat aircraft. In total, 112.1 thousand combat aircraft were produced throughout the war. At the same time, the entire range of manufactured aircraft was completely replaced, and for some types of aircraft - more than once.
However, after the war, I.V. Stalin’s attitude towards the outstanding organizer and leader of the defense industry changed dramatically. According to one version, the reason was Shakhurin’s unyielding character, leading to frequent disputes with the leader and numerous conflicts with industrial and party leaders. The immediate reason was a letter from the son of I.V. Stalin, Major General of Aviation Vasily Stalin, that as a pilot he believed that American aircraft were better than Soviet ones. Shakhurin was removed from the post of People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR on January 5, 1946 and placed at the disposal of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. In March 1946, he was removed from the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
On April 4, 1946, Alexey Ivanovich Shakhurin was arrested. Together with him, the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Chief Marshal of Aviation A.A., was arrested and charged in the case. Novikov, chief engineer of the Air Force, Colonel General A.K. Repin, member of the Air Force Military Council, Colonel General N.S. Shimanov, Head of the Main Directorate of Air Force Orders, Lieutenant General N.P. Seleznev, heads of aviation departments of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks A.V. Budnikov and G.M. Grigoryan.
On May 11, 1946, A.I. Shakhurin was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to 7 years in prison under Art. 193-17 p.b" of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for "abuse and abuse of power under especially aggravating circumstances" and "production of non-standard, substandard and incomplete products" with a petition for deprivation of state awards and military rank. The remaining defendants received sentences ranging from 2 to 6 years. By a resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers of May 18, 1946, Shakhurin was stripped of his military rank. At the request of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, by decree of May 20, 1946, deprived Shakhurin, Repin, Novikov and Seleznev of all government awards, including Shakhurin - the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
Soon after Stalin's death, in April 1953, Shakhurin was released (he served his entire sentence). On May 29, 1953, he was rehabilitated.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated June 2, 1953, Aleksey Ivanovich Shakhurin was restored to the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, and all orders and medals were returned to him. By a resolution of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee of June 12, 1953, he was reinstated in the party. By a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated June 15, 1953, the military rank of Colonel General of the Aviation Engineering Service was returned to him.
In 1953 - 1957 - Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR. In 1957 - 1959 - Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations. In August 1959 he was dismissed.
Lived in the hero city of Moscow. He worked from July 1962 to August 1963 as a consultant at the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, from March 1966 to October 1970 as a scientific consultant and senior researcher at the All-Union Research Institute of Standardization, from May 1971 to August 1973 as a senior researcher at the All-Union Research Institute for Normalization in Mechanical Engineering. Died on July 3, 1975. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (section 1).
Lieutenant General of the Aviation Engineering Service (04/30/1943).
Colonel General of the Aviation Engineering Service (08/19/1944, with a break).
Awarded two orders of Lenin (09/8/1941, 05/25/1944), orders of the Red Banner (11/5/1954), Suvorov 1st degree (09/16/1945), Kutuzov 1st degree (08/19/1944), Red Banner of Labor (24/02) .1954), Red Star, medal “For Military Merit” (11/3/1944), and other medals.
In Moscow, on the building of the Air Force Engineering Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky, a memorial plaque to A.I. was installed. Shakhurin.
Additions provided by Andrey Simonov (Zhukovsky).

Born on February 12, 1904 in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Podolsk district, Moscow province (now Moscow region). The son of a peasant.

From 1919 he worked as an electrician in Podolsk, and from 1921 as a milling machine operator at the Manometer plant in Moscow. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1925. In 1925, he was transferred to Komsomol work - secretary of the Baumansky district committee of the Komsomol of Moscow, then worked in the People's Commissariat of Trade of the RSFSR.

Graduated from the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute in 1932. Since 1933 in military service. In 1933-1938 he served in the research and educational department of the Air Force Academy named after N. E. Zhukovsky. Since February 1938, he was a party organizer at the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry plant.

In 1938-1939, first secretary of the Yaroslavl regional committee of the CPSU (b). He normalized the socio-political situation in the region, established party work after mass repressions.

In 1939-1940, first secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

In 1940-1946, People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry. In the summer of 1944, Stalin instructed Shakhurin to examine everything possible, together with the advancing troops, at the German missile site, which was to be captured by the Red Army on Polish territory.

In 1946, Shakhurin was repressed for the “aviation case.” On May 10-11, 1946, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, chaired by V.V. Ulrikh, sentenced him to 7 years on charges of “abuse of power” and “production of non-standard, substandard and incomplete products.”

In the verdict, A.I. Shakhurin was accused of the following: “for a long time, he produced aircraft and engines with large design and production defects and, in collusion with the command of the Air Force, put them into service with the Air Force, as a result of which a large number of accidents occurred in aviation units. accidents and catastrophes, pilots were killed, and many defective aircraft accumulated that could not be used in battles with the Germans...".

On May 29, 1953 he was rehabilitated and released. On June 2, 1953, all awards and titles were returned.

In 1953-1957, Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR, First Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.

In 1957 - August 1959, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations.

His son Vladimir (1928-1943) is known for the fact that on July 3, 1943, he shot the daughter of Ambassador Konstantin Umansky Nina and then shot himself.

Awards

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 8, 1941, for outstanding services in the production of aircraft in difficult wartime conditions, Alexei Ivanovich Shakhurin was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the presentation of the Hammer and Sickle Gold Medal and the Order of Lenin.
He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov, 1st degree, the Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and the Order of the Red Star.

Born on February 12, 1904 in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Podolsk district, Moscow province (now Moscow region). The son of a peasant.

1937Shakhurin Alexey Ivanovich

In 1938-1939, first secretary of the Yaroslavl regional committee of the CPSU (b). He normalized the socio-political situation in the region, established party work after mass repressions.

In 1939-1940, first secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

In 1940-1946, People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry. In summer

1941 Shakhurin Alexey Ivanovich

November 7, 1941 Kalinin, Voroshilov, Andreev, the new commander of the district troops, General A. Kalinin and many others, incl. and A.I. Shakhurin, attended the military parade in Kuibyshev. The ground parade was commanded by M.M. Popov is the commander of the 61st Army, which was soon transferred to Moscow. An air parade also took place, in which 600 aircraft took part. It was commanded by Colonel V.A. Sudets (future air marshal, Commander-in-Chief of the air defense forces).

Stalin's speech on the evening of November 6 and the broadcast of the parade from Moscow inspired people, and, despite the inhuman working conditions and half-starved existence literally in the open air of the Urals and Siberia, by January 1942 they began mass production of aircraft.

On January 7, 1942, Shakhurin received a call from Siberia and said loud words: “Receive, Motherland, the first Zaporozhye engine on Siberian soil!” Hearing these words, Alexey Ivanovich, far from a sentimental person, felt a spasm in his throat.

Defense industry workers in the editorial office of the newspaper Pravda. Sitting (from left to right): I.I. Ivanov, B.L. Vannikov, N.N. Polikarpov, D.F. Ustinov, S.V. Ilyushin, B.G. Shpitalny. Standing fourth from the right is A.I. Shakhurin. October 1942.

KAGANOVICH Mikhail Moiseevich (1888-1941) - People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR in 1939 - 1940.

Born into a wealthy Jewish family in the village of Kabany, Radomysl district, Kyiv province. Received primary education. Metal worker.
In 1905 he joined the RSDLP, a Bolshevik. He was arrested several times. In 1917-1918, a member of the headquarters of the Red Guard detachments at Unecha station (Chernigov province). In 1918-1922, chairman of the Arzamas Military Revolutionary Committee, chairman of the Surazh Council (Smolensk province), district food commissar in Arzamas, secretary of the Vyksa district committee of the RCP (b). In 1923-1927, chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod Gubernia Economic Council. With the support of his younger brother, he was transferred to Moscow.
In 1927-1934 - member of the Central Control Commission of the CPSU (b). In 1927-1930 - candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks - member of the board of the People's Commissariat of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate of the USSR. In 1930-1932 - member of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
Since 1931, head of the Main Engineering Directorate and deputy chairman of the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR. In 1932-1936, Deputy People's Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR, closest collaborator of G. K. Ordzhonikidze. Since 1934 member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. In 1934-1939, candidate member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. At the same time, in 1935-1936, he was the head of the Main Directorate of the Aviation Industry of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry. From December 1936, Deputy People's Commissar, from October 15, 1937 to January 11, 1939, People's Commissar of Defense Industry (NKOP) of the USSR.
V. S. Emelyanov in his memoirs characterized M. Kaganovich as follows: “He was a rude, noisy person. I never saw him with his mouth closed - he always spoke and always taught, he loved to joke, but his jokes were often inappropriate, unwitty and offensive to those whom they affected.<…>M. M. Kaganovich had little understanding of the technology of the matter, and the People’s Commissariat was essentially led by his talented deputies I. T. Tevosyan, B. L. Vannikov and M. V. Khrunichev.”
Since 1937, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st convocation. On January 11, 1939, the People's Commissariat of the Aviation Industry of the USSR was separated from the NKOP, headed by Mikhail Kaganovich.
On January 10, 1940, he was relieved of his post as People's Commissar and appointed director of the aviation Plant No. 124 named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze in Kazan. In February 1941, at the XVIII Conference of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, he was warned that if “he does not fulfill the instructions of the party and government, he will be removed from the Central Committee and removed from leadership work.”
Shot himself on July 1, 1941.
SHAKHURIN Alexey Ivanovich (1904-1975) - People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR in 1940 - 1946.

From 1919 he worked as an electrician in Podolsk, and from 1921 as a milling machine operator at the Manometer plant in Moscow. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1925. In 1925, he was transferred to Komsomol work - secretary of the Baumansky district committee of the Komsomol of Moscow, then worked in the People's Commissariat of Trade of the RSFSR.
Graduated from the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute in 1932. Since 1933 in military service. In 1933-1938 he served in the research and educational department of the Air Force Academy named after N. E. Zhukovsky. Since February 1938, he was a party organizer at the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry plant.
In 1938-1939, first secretary of the Yaroslavl regional committee of the CPSU (b). He normalized the socio-political situation in the region, established party work after mass repressions. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR since 1938
In 1939-1940, first secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
In 1940-1946, People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry. When the Radar Council under the State Defense Committee was created in 1943, he was appointed its member. In the summer of 1944, Stalin instructed Shakhurin to examine everything that was possible, together with the advancing troops, at the German missile site, which was to be captured by the Red Army on Polish territory.
In 1946, Shakhurin was repressed for the “aviation case.” On May 10-11, 1946, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, chaired by V.V. Ulrikh, sentenced him to 7 years on charges of “abuse of power” and “production of non-standard, substandard and incomplete products.”
In the verdict, A.I. Shakhurin was accused of the following: “for a long time, he produced aircraft and engines with large design and production defects and, in collusion with the command of the Air Force, put them into service with the Air Force, as a result of which a large number of accidents occurred in aviation units. accidents and catastrophes, pilots died, and many defective aircraft accumulated that could not be used in battles with the Germans...”
On May 29, 1953 he was rehabilitated and released. On June 2, 1953, all awards and titles were returned.
In 1953-1957, Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR, First Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.
From 1957 to August 1959, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations.

KHRUNICHEV Mikhail Vasilievich (1901-1961) - People's Commissar (Minister) of the aviation industry of the USSR in 1946 - 1953.

Main job assignments[edit | edit wiki text]
. 1914-1920 - delivery boy, postman, mechanic's assistant.
. 1920-1924 - served in the Red Army: political worker, treasurer.
. 1924-1929 - served in the police: head of the district department, deputy head of the Lugansk district police.
. 1929-1932 - at economic work in Lugansk, while studying.
. 1932-1937 - deputy director, director of the military plant, Zelenodolsk.
. 1937-1939 - Head of the 12th Main Directorate, Deputy People's Commissar of the Defense Industry of the USSR.
. 1939-1942 - Deputy People's Commissar of the USSR Aviation Industry.
. 1942-1946 - First Deputy People's Commissar of Ammunition of the USSR.
. 1946-1953 - Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.
. 1953-1955 - First Deputy Minister of Medium Engineering of the USSR.
. 1955-1956 - Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
On January 19, 1956, the Resolution of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee “On the state of work on the creation of air-to-air systems” was adopted, in which, in particular, it was: “Indicate to Comrade Khrunichev that he does not take his responsibilities seriously and has taken a formal, bureaucratic approach to fulfillment of the instructions of the CPSU Central Committee to create air-to-air systems.
. 1956-1961 - Deputy Chairman of the State Economic Commission of the USSR, Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR - Minister of the USSR.
. 1961-1961 - Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for the coordination of scientific research.

DEMENTYEV Pyotr Vasilyevich (1907-1977) - Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR in 1953 - 1977.

about the Dementiev dynasty - here) - Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers on Aviation Technology in 1957 - 1965.
He began his career as a worker in 1922. After graduating from the Ubeevsk rural school, P.V. Dementyev studied at the Simbirsk (Ulyanovsk) vocational school. In 1927, he entered the Moscow Mechanical Institute named after M.V. Lomonosov, but two years later he transferred to the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Professor N.E. Zhukovsky, from which he graduated in 1931.
After successfully completing his studies, P.V. Dementyev, among the most talented graduates, was sent to the Civil Air Fleet Research Institute, and three years later he was asked to work at a specific production site. In 1934-1941. he worked his way up from the head of the workshop of the Moscow Aviation Plant No. 81 to the chief engineer and director of the State Aviation Plant No. 1 (Moscow Aircraft Plant).
In 1938, P.V. Dementyev joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
In 1941, he was appointed first deputy people's commissar (since 1946 - minister) of the aviation industry of the USSR, working in this position until 1953. During the war, he was responsible for the serial production of aircraft.
In 1941, P.V. Dementyev, among the first leaders of the aviation industry, was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor for fulfilling government tasks for the creation and production of new aviation and special equipment.
In 1952, at the 19th Congress of the CPSU, he was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, of which he became a member in 1956. In 1953, P. V. Dementyev became a laureate of the Stalin Prize.
In March 1953, when the USSR Ministry of Aviation Industry became part of the USSR Ministry of Defense Industry, supervised by L.P. Beria, P.V. Dementyev lost his post. After the removal and arrest of L.P. Beria, in August 1953 he was appointed Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR, becoming the head of the Soviet aviation industry for almost a quarter of a century - until his death in 1977 (from 1957 - as chairman State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on Aviation Technology, from 1963 - Chairman of the State Committee on Aviation Technology of the USSR, and from 1965 - again Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR).
Academician G.V. Novozhilov spoke about P.V. Dementyev:

It must be said that a person of Dementiev’s caliber can be likened to a diamond with hundreds of sparkling facets, and no one can see them all at once. He allowed each of those with whom the minister communicated to see only what he wanted to show. He knew how to be tough, and kind, and unyielding, and all-understanding, he knew how to flatter when necessary, to cut when necessary, he could bring a person closer, and he could clearly indicate the distance - he had many faces and this is exactly what, in the opinion of those, who worked next to the minister was interesting and dear.

KAZAKOV Vasily Alexandrovich (1916-1981) - Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR in 1977 - 1981.

Born into a working-class family. In 1955 he graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Engineering Institute.
Since 1937 at aircraft factory No. 213:
. 1937-1939 - technologist,
. 1939-1941 - shop manager,
. 1941-1943 - head of department,
. 1943-1944 - chief technologist.
In 1944-1949. - Chief technologist of aircraft plant No. 122 in Moscow.
In 1949-1951. - Head of Department at the State Union Design Institute No. 10 of the USSR Ministry of Aviation Industry.
In 1951-1960 - Chief Engineer of Plant No. 122.
In 1960-1965 - Director of Research Institute-923 of the State Committee for Aviation Technology.
In 1965-1974. - deputy Minister,
in 1974-1977 - First Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.

SILAEV Ivan Stepanovich (1930-) - Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR in 1981 - 1985.

Born in the village of Bakhtyzino, Voznesensky district, Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) region into a peasant family. In 1954, he graduated from the Kazan Aviation Institute with a degree in “aircraft mechanical engineer” and was assigned to the S. Ordzhonikidze Aviation Plant in Gorky, where over the course of 20 years he worked his way up from a foreman to a plant director (1971), participating in the creation and production of MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-19, MiG-21, MiG-25, MiG-31 fighters. In 1959 he joined the CPSU.
In 1974, he was sent to work at the USSR Ministry of Aviation Industry, where until 1980 he served with the rank of deputy minister. From December 19, 1980 to February 20, 1981, he was Minister of Machine Tool and Tool Industry of the USSR; from February 20, 1981, he was appointed Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR. At the Ministry of Aviation Industry, I. Silaev for 11 years directly supervised the creation, testing and launch into mass production of MiG-29, Su-27, MiG-31, Tu-160, An-124 (Ruslan), Il-86 aircraft, Ka- 26, Mi-24, X-55 cruise missile, Buran aerospace ship.

SYSTSOV Apollo Sergeevich (1929-2005) - Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR in 1985 - 1991.

In 1962 he graduated from the evening department of the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mechanical engineer in aircraft construction.
Since 1948 at the Tashkent Aviation Plant named after. V. P. Chkalova: motor mechanic,
since 1955 - process engineer, foreman, senior foreman, section manager, deputy shop manager;
from 1963 - workshop manager;
since 1969 - chief engineer.
Since 1975 - General Director of the Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex, member of the board of the USSR Ministry of Aviation Industry.
Since 1981 - First Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.
Since November 1985 - Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.

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