Pyotr Dementyev (politician)

Pyotr Vasilyevich Dementyev
3rd Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR
In office
2 March 1965 – 14 May 1977
Preceded byPosition re-established; he also served as Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Aviation Technology – Minister of the USSR
Succeeded byVasily Aleksandrovich Kazakov
1st Chairman of the State Committee for Aviation Technology of the USSR – Minister of the USSR
In office
March 1963 – 2 March 1965
Preceded byPosition established; he also served as Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Aviation Technology
Succeeded byPosition abolished; he also served as Minister of the Aviation Industry of the USSR
1st Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Aviation Technology
In office
14 December 1957 – March 1963
Preceded byHe also served as Minister of the Aviation Industry of the USSR
Succeeded byHe also served as Chairman of the State Committee for Aviation Technology of the USSR – Minister of the USSR
2nd Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR
In office
24 August 1953 – 14 December 1957
Preceded byPosition re-established; Mikhail Vasilyevich Khrunichev
Succeeded byHe also served as Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Aviation Technology – Minister of the USSR
Personal details
Born(1907-01-24)24 January 1907
Alyoshkin-Saplyk, Ubeevskaya Volost, Buinsky Uyezd, Simbirsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died(1977-05-14)14 May 1977
Moscow, Soviet Union
PartyCPSU (since 1938)
Alma materZhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
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Pyotr Vasilyevich Dementyev (Пётр Васильевич Дементьев; 11 (24) January 1907 – 14 May 1977) was a Soviet statesman who served twice as Minister of Aviation Industry from 1953 to 1957 and again from 1965 until his death in 1977 overseeing the post-war shift to jet and large-scale civil production in the USSR's aircraft sector.[1][2] He held the rank of colonel general engineer (1976), was twice named Hero of Socialist Labour (1941, 1977), and sat on the CPSU Central Committee while serving as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet.[2][1]

Early life and education

Dementyev was born in the village of Ubei (now in Drozhzhanovsky District, Tatarstan), into a family of teachers; his birth date is recorded as 11 (24) January 1907 (Old Style/New Style).[1]

Career

Between 1934 and 1941, Dementyev advanced at the Kazan Aviation Plant, serving as a shop chief, chief engineer, and plant director.[1] In early 1941 he was appointed First Deputy People's Commissar of Aviation Industry.[2] During the war he was credited—together with industry teams with organising serial output under evacuation and mobilisation conditions, efforts for which he received his first Hero of Socialist Labour title in 1942.[2]

After the March 1946 conversion of the wartime commissariat into the Ministry of Aviation Industry (MAP), Dementyev served as Deputy Minister.[2]

Awards and honours

For his work in aviation, Dementyev received numerous state honours, including the USSR State Prize (1953), nine Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class, the Order of Kutuzov, 1st class, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour, the Order of the Red Star, and various medals.[1][2] He was twice named Hero of Socialist Labour, first during the war and again in 1977, and was promoted to colonel general engineer in 1976.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Дементьев Пётр Васильевич". Tatarica (in Russian). Институт Татарской энциклопедии и регионоведения.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Peter V. Dementyev (1907–1977)". GlobalSecurity.org. 21 February 2016.

Literature

  • Cuhaj, G.S. (2008). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. General Issues 1368–1960 (12th ed.). Iola: Krause Publications. p. 1223. ISBN 978-0-89689-730-4.
  • Parchimowicz, J.; Borkowski, T. (1997). Katalog banknotów polskich i iz Polska związanych (2nd ed.). Szczecin: Nefryt. p. 1223. ISBN 83-905709-8-X.
  • Denisov, Alexander E. (2005). Paper Money of Russia 1769–1917. Part 4. Regional Paper Money 1800–1917. Moscow: Finance and Credit. p. 120. ISBN 5-8024-0035-8.
  • Pravilova, Ekaterina A. (2006). Finances of the Empire: Money and Power in the Politics of Russia on the National Outskirts, 1801–1917. Moscow: Novoe Izdatelstvo. ISBN 5-98379-048-X.


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