Nikolai Baibakov

Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Байбако́в) (6 March 1911, Sabunchu, near Baku, Russian Empire – 31 March 2008, Moscow) was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished secondary school in 1928 and entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, from which he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer. In 1935, he was drafted into the armed forces. After completing his military service, he was appointed chief of the oilfield production department in an industrial complex in the USSR. Later he was promoted to chief engineer, then general director. He was in charge of evacuating oil industry facilities to the eastern regions during the Nazi invasion. Then he was appointed as narkom of the oil Industry of the USSR in 1944 serving until 1946. Because of his success in the planning of the oil industry sector of the Soviet Union and experience in economics, he was appointed as the head of Gosplan (State Planning Committee) of the USSR twice (1955–1957, 1965–1985).

Contents

• Exhibition Nikolai Baibakov The Way of the Creator
• Honours and awards
• References

Honours and awards

Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class (March 7, 2006) - for outstanding services to the state

Six Orders of Lenin

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice

Lenin Prize (1963) - for the discovery and development of gas-condensate fields

Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS, established in 1996 was awarded the Medal of the Academy)

Academician of the Academy of Cosmonautics

Laureate of the "Russian National Olympus"

Honorary Citizen of Ishimbai (Bashkortostan) - as an active participant in the development of Bashkir oil industry (made with such an initiative in 1940)

Istiglal Order (Azerbaijan)