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	6 March 1911(1911-03-06) Sabunchu, Baku Oblast 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 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).

Honours and awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

• 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)

External links

• Inside Gosplan
• Baibakov's removal from office
• Nikolai K. Baibakov, a Top Soviet Economic Official, Dies at 97