Bolshevik industrial administrator who rose from the Cheka to chair VSNKh RSFSR
In 1936 Lobov received the Order of Lenin for his commissariat's overfulfillment of the production plan. One year later the same party arrested him for 'anti-Soviet terrorist' activity; he was sentenced and shot on the same day, 30 October 1937.
Son of a forester in Smolensk, he worked as a labourer and draftsman before joining the Bolsheviks in 1913. During the Civil War he chaired the Petrograd, Saratov and Bashkir Chekas, becoming an early cadre of the Soviet security organs. Under NEP he managed the fuel and oil syndicate, then became chairman of VSNKh RSFSR in 1926, laying the administrative basis for industrialization. As People's Commissar for Timber Industry from 1932, he oversaw lumber supply for the Five-Year Plans and received the Order of Lenin in 1936. Arrested in June 1937, he was shot on 30 October 1937 and rehabilitated in 1956.
Career Timeline
- 1913Joins Bolsheviks; worker at Rosenkrantz plant, Petrograd
- 1917–1918Petrograd and Vyborg party committees; factory chairman; Soviet deputy
- 1918–1919Deputy chairman, Petrograd Cheka
- 1919–1920Saratov Cheka chairman → Bashkir Cheka chairman and NKVD commissar
- 1921–1923Head of fuel department, USSR Oil Syndicate
- 1923–1926Chairman of NW Industrial Bureau; VSNKh Presidium member
- 1926–1930Chairman of VSNKh RSFSR and head of Glavenergo
- 1930–1932Deputy People's Commissar of Supply, USSR
- 1932–1936People's Commissar for Timber Industry, USSR
- 1936–1937People's Commissar for Food Industry, RSFSR