CC department head who directed the Soviet chemical industry
"Without the chemical industry, not a single national task can be solved at an optimal level," he declared in his 1973 book, justifying full-spectrum chemicalization as a party line.
A graduate of the Moscow Institute of Chemical Machine Building, Bushuyev rose from Gosplan engineer to a figure who straddled central planning and party supervision of the Soviet chemical industry. As head of the Chemical Industry Department of the CPSU Central Committee from 1965 to 1976, he directed from the party line the Kosygin-era modernization drive: a massive expansion of synthetic rubber, plastics, mineral fertilizers, and petrochemicals. He simultaneously served on the Central Auditing Commission (1966–1981), overseeing party finances and documentation, and was a three-term deputy to the RSFSR Supreme Soviet. His 1973 book The Chemical Industry in Light of the Decisions of the 24th Party Congress became a standard party reference for chemical-industry policy under Brezhnev.
Career Timeline
- 1941Graduated Moscow Institute of Chemical Machine Building
- 1942–1950sEngineer → senior engineer, State Planning Commission (Gosplan)
- 1947Joined the VKP(b)
- 1950s–1965Sector head → deputy department head, Gosplan under the USSR Council of Ministers
- 1965–1976Head of the Chemical Industry Department, CPSU Central Committee
- 1966–1981Member of the Central Auditing Commission, CPSU
- 1967–1980Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (7th, 8th, 9th convocations)