Vladimir Ivanovich Melnikov

Vladimir Ivanovich Melnikow ( Russian Владимир Иванович Мельников ; born October 29, 1935 in Rschew , Kalinin Oblast , Soviet Union ; † January 4, 2010 in Moscow ) was a Russian politician .

biography

After attending school, he studied at the State Institute of Forestry in Moscow and ended this in 1958 with the graduation . He then worked as a production engineer at the combine in Ust-Kulom in the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) Komi and became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1961 . Between 1962 and 1970 he was then successively Designer , Director of Human Resources, Head of Production Department, Deputy Director and finally Director of the machine factory of Syktyvkar .

After finishing this activity, he began his full-time activity as a party official in 1970 and was initially secretary of the city committee of the CPSU in Syktywkar and head of the department for the wood industry in the party committee in the ASSR Komi. 1976 he became an instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering of the Central Committee (CC) of the CPSU . In 1979 he returned to the ASSR Komi and took over the function of Second Secretary of the Komi Party Committee.

In December 1984 Melnikov became chairman of the ASSR Komi Council of Ministers. He held this office until March 3, 1987, when he took over the function of First Secretary of the CPSU in the ASSR Komi. At the same time he was chairman of the Komi Representation in Moscow and as such a member of the Regional Coordination Council of the Committee for Interregional Relations and National Politics.

Between March 1984 and March 1989 he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet and then until October 1989 a deputy of the People's Deputies Congress .

On August 3, 1989, he was then appointed Minister of Wood, Forestry, Cellulose and Paper Industry of the USSR and held this post until April 1, 1991 in the governments of Nikolai Ivanovich Ryschkow and Ivan Stepanovich Silayev .

He has received several awards for his services and has received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Order of Friendship of Nations three times .

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , he was chairman of the State Cooperative of the Russian Timber Industry between 1991 and 1994.

Web links

• В Москве скончался Владимир Мельников. In: Красное знамя (Red Banner), Komi. January 5, 2010(Russian).