Alexander Petrovich Rudakov

Alexander Petrovich Rudakov ( Russian Александр Петрович Рудаков ; born August 29 ^{. Jul} / 11. September  1910 ^greg. In Polohy , Zaporizhia Oblast ; † 10. July 1966 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician .

Life

Rudakov came from a peasant family. From 1927 worked as the miner in Donbass . In 1931 he became a member of the CPSU . In 1937 he graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute . From 1936 to 1938 he worked first for the Komsomol , then in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU), where he was deputy head of the department for the coal industry. In 1941/41 he worked on behalf of the Military Soviet of the Southwest Front . Between 1942 and 1944 he worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the CPSU, then again at the Central Committee of the KPU, this time as head of the coal and heavy industry departments , and later the department of party, trade union and Komsomol organs. From September 1952 to January 1956 Rudakov was a member of the Central Committee of the KPU.

From February 1956 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU, from November 1962 a member and secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Until his death he was head of the heavy industry department at the Central Committee of the CPSU.

He was a member of the Supreme Soviet in the 6th and 7th electoral terms. Rudakov was a delegate of the XX., XXI., XXII. and XXIII. Party congress of the CPSU.

Honors

Rudakov was awarded two orders of Lenin as well as other orders and medals. He was buried on the Kremlin wall .

literature

• Entry: Рудаков, Александр Петрович . In: Большая советская энциклопедия . Third edition. Издательство "Советская энциклопедия", Moscow 1969–1978 (Russian).
• Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898–1991 (Russian)