Avraami Zavenyagin
Avraami Zavenyagin | |
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Авраамий Завенягин | |
Minister of Medium Machine Building | |
In office 28 February 1955 – 31 December 1956 | |
Premier | Nikolai Bulganin |
Preceded by | Vyacheslav Malyshev |
Succeeded by | Mikhail Pervukhin |
Lieutenant-General Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin (1 May 1901 – 31 December 1956; his first name is also sometimes given as Avram or Abraham) was a leading figure in the Soviet nuclear projects of the 1940s and 1950s.[1][2][3] [4]
Zavenyagin was made plant director of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works in August 1933 and served in that capacity until 1936 when he was appointed the assistant to the People's Commissar of Heavy Industry.[4]
During April 1938 - March 1941 he was in charge of the construction works at Norillag.
A protégé of Lavrenti Beria,[2] Zavenyagin survived the purge after the death of Joseph Stalin because of a long friendship with Nikita Khrushchev, which dated back to the 1920s. During the Khrushchev era, he headed the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, responsible for nuclear weapons production, for two years. He died of a heart attack in 1956.
Icebreaker Avraamiy Zavenyagin (Russian: Авраамий Завенягин) was named after him.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Antony Beevor, The fall of Berlin, 1945, 2002
- ^ a b Richard Lee Miller, Under the cloud: the decades of nuclear testing, 1986
- ^ George A. Lopez and Nancy J. Myers, Peace and security: the next generation, 1997
- ^ a b John Scott, Behind the Urals: an American worker in Russia's City of Steel, 1942
- ^ Авраамий Завенягин
- 1901 births
- 1956 deaths
- People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Heroes of Socialist Labour
- Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
- Commissars 3rd Class of State Security
- National University of Science and Technology MISiS alumni
- Academic staff of the National University of Science and Technology MISiS
- Soviet lieutenant generals
- Candidates of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- Candidates of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Members of the Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union