Head of the Central Committee’s agriculture department who became minister of agriculture and procurement after Stalin’s death
Born in 1911 into a peasant family in St Petersburg, he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Dairy Livestock Farming in 1932 as a livestock specialist. After working as a state-farm specialist and director he became deputy People’s Commissar of State Farms of the RSFSR in 1939–1940, and he joined the party in 1939. He was deputy head of the Central Committee’s agriculture department in 1940–1946, USSR Minister of Livestock Farming in 1946–1947 and head of the Central Committee’s agriculture department in 1948–1953. After Stalin’s death he was Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the merged ministry from March to September 1953 and Minister of State Farms in 1953–1955, until he was dismissed as “not coping with the work” and sent to the Virgin Lands as a state-farm director. He later served as Minister of State Farms of Kazakhstan among other posts and retired in 1977.
Activities and affiliations
Career Timeline
- 1937–1938Director of the Torosovo state farm, Leningrad Oblast
- 1939–1940Deputy People’s Commissar of State Farms of the RSFSR
- 1940–1946Deputy head of the Agriculture Department of the VKP(b) Central Committee
- 1946–1947Minister of Livestock Farming of the USSR
- 1948–1953Head of the Agriculture Department of the Central Committee
- 1953.03.15–1953.09.01Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the USSR
- 1953–1955Minister of State Farms of the USSR
- 1960–1961Minister of State Farms of Kazakhstan