Konstantin Viktorovich Russakov

Konstantin Viktorovich Rusakov ( Russian Константин Викторович Русаков ; born December 18 ^{. Jul} / 31 December  1909 ^greg. In Toropets , Principality of Tver ; † 29. December 1993 in Moscow ) was a Soviet diplomat and politician of the Soviet Communist Party , among others between 1950 and 1952 Minister of Fisheries and from 1977 to 1986 member of the secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU .

Life

Fisheries Minister, Ambassador and Central Committee Secretary

Russakow graduated from the Polytechnic Institute " Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin " in Leningrad in 1930 and then began working for the Supreme Council of Economics in 1930 and in 1932 at the People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry. Afterwards he was chief engineer of a meat canning factory in Leningrad between 1933 and 1939 and finally a feed factory in Irkutsk , before he was employed in the newly created People's Commissariat for the fishing industry from 1939 to 1946. In 1943 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Between 1946 and 1948 he served as Vice Minister for the Fisheries Industry and as such was responsible for the western regions of the Soviet Union. After he was Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 1948 to February 6, 1950, he took over the post of Minister of Fisheries of the Soviet Union from Alexander Akimowitsch Ischkow on February 6, 1950 (министр рыбной промышленности СССР) , who he held until he was replaced by Vasilyev on Dmitri Vassilev February 20, 1952.

Russakov then acted again as Vice Minister for Fisheries between February 20, 1952 and 1953, and then from 1953 to 1954 as head of the administrative department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, before he was again Vice Minister for Fisheries between 1955 and 1956. He then held the post of First Vice Minister for the Fisheries Industry from 1956 to 1957 and then from 1958 to 1960 as Counselor at the Embassy in the People's Republic of Poland . Then he was from 1960 to February 1962 employees of the Central Committee, and between 14th February 1962 and November 21, 1963 Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USSR in the Mongolian People's Republic and gave there on 23 February 1962 his accreditation letter . After his return he was first deputy head from 1964 to October 1965 and then between October 1965 and March 1968 first deputy head of the Central Committee department for relations with the communist and workers' parties in the socialist countries.

Thereupon Russakov belonged to the XXIII. Congress (March 29 to April 8, 1966) to the XXIV Congress (March 30 to April 9, 1971) as a member of the Central Revision Commission of the CPSU and was also head of the Central Committee for Relations between March 1968 and 1972 to the communist and workers' parties in the socialist countries. At the XXIV Party Congress (March 30 to April 9, 1971) he finally became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU and in this function at the XXV. Party Congress (February 24 to March 5, 1976) and the XXVI. Congress (February 23 to March 3, 1981) confirmed. During this time, from 1972 to May 24, 1977, he worked for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee . On May 24, 1977 he himself became a member of the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee and was a member of this body until February 25, 1986. Furthermore, from May 1977 to February 1986, he again served as head of the Central Committee department for relations with the communist and workers' parties in the socialist countries. He retired in February 1986.

Awards

Russakov was honored several times for his services and received, among other things, the Decoration of Honor of the Soviet Union (August 23, 1943 and January 11, 1960), the Order of Lenin (December 31, 1966, December 31, 1969, December 29, 1979 and December 29, 1984) , the Order of Georgi Dimitrov of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (October 30, 1979), the title Hero of Socialist Labor (December 29, 1979) and most recently the Order of the Great Patriotic War (April 23, 1985).

Web link

• Biography in the Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991 (Russian)