Andrei Ivanovich Letkov
Andrei Iwanowitsch Letkow ( Russian Андрей Иванович Летков ; * December 13th July / December 26th 1903 greg. In Oserki, Saratov Governorate ; † January 16, 1942 in Bolshoi Kujasch, Chelyabinsk Oblast ) was a Soviet politician . He was People's Commissar (Minister) for Power Plants of the USSR.
Life
Letkow, son of an employee, worked as a gardener and farm worker in the Saratov governorate from 1917. From 1922 to 1924 he attended the Workers' Faculty ( RabFak ) in Tsaritsyn , from 1924 to 1926 the Agricultural Institute in Saratov . In 1923 he joined the Komsomol . From October 1926 to 1930 he studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Moscow Institute of Economics "GW Plekhanov" . Since August 1930 Letkow was a member of the CPSU .
From March 1930 to October 1933 he was foreman at the Shatursk power station near Moscow , then from October 1933 foreman, from November 1936 chief engineer at the Kaschirsk power station. From November 1937 to February 1939 he worked as director of the Dneproenergo ( Днепроэнерго ) in Zaporizhia . From February 1939 he headed the electrical engineering department for the southern areas in the People's Commissariat for Power Plants and the Electrical Industry. From April 1939 he was Deputy People's Commissar for Power Plants and the Electrical Industry. After the People's Commissariat for Power Plants and Electrical Industry was split into two independent People's Commissariats, Letkow was People's Commissar for Power Plants from April 17, 1940 until his death. After Hitler's Germany attacked the Soviet Union , the People's Commissariat headed by Letkow was evacuated from Moscow to Chelyabinsk in June 1941 .
Letkow died of complications from a heart attack .
Awards
literature
- Владимир Иванович Ивкин: Высшие органы власти и управления и их руководители 1923-1991. Историко-биографический справочник . РОССПЭН, Москва 1999, с. 388.
- Константин Александрович Залесский: Империя Сталина. Биографический энциклопедический словарь . Вече, Москва 2000, с. 277. online on www.hrono.ru
- Klaus Gestwa: The large Stalin buildings of communism. Soviet technical and environmental history 1948–1967 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2010, p. 122.
Web links
- Short biography on the site of Энциклопедия «Челябинск» (Russian)
- Short biography on the page of the newspaper Вестник Замоскворечья (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Letkov, Andrei Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Летков, Андрей Иванович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oserki, Saratov Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1942 |
| Place of death | Bolshoi Kujasch, Chelyabinsk Oblast |