Matskevich, Vladimir Vladimirovich (statesman)

In 1932 he graduated from the Kharkov Zootechnical Institute .

In 1932-1952 - on responsible work in the Ukrainian SSR.

• 1932-1946 - Lecturer, deputy director of the Lipkuvat College (Kharkov region),
• 1933-1938 - Director and teacher of Mariupol, Donetsk state farm technical school,
• 1938-1941 - Director of the Kharkov Zootechnical Institute,
• 1942-1944 - Director of the Tomsk Veterinary College,
• 1944-1946 - Director of the Kharkov Veterinary Institute,
• 1946-1947 - First Deputy Minister of Livestock of the Ukrainian SSR,
• January-February 1947 - Minister of Livestock of the Ukrainian SSR,
• 1947-1949 - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Ukrainian SSR,
• 1949-1950 - Minister of Agriculture of the Ukrainian SSR,
• 1950-1952 - First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1952-1953 - First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Stavropol Regional Council, and. about. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Stavropol Regional Council.

Then, in leadership work in the government of the Soviet Union and in diplomatic work:

• 1953 - First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Harvesting of the USSR,
• 1953-1955 - First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the USSR
• 1955-1960 - Minister of Agriculture of the USSR and, at the same time, Deputy Chairman of the State Economic Commission of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Current Planning of the National Economy - Minister of the USSR (1956-1957),
• 1957-1961 - Deputy Chairman of the USSR State Planning Commission,
• 1961-1965 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Tselinnaya Regional Council of Workers' Deputies,
• 1965-1973 - Minister of Agriculture of the USSR ^[1] ,
• 1973-1980 - Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USSR in Czechoslovakia.

Since 1980, a personal pensioner of national importance.

Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1956-1961, 1966-1981). Member of the Supreme Council of the USSR of 3-8 convocations. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) of Ukraine (1949-1952). Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) of Ukraine (1950-1952). Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR of the 2nd-3rd convocations.

He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.

• Four Orders of Lenin (01/23/1948; 01/11/1957; 12/14/1959; 12/12/1969)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (08/26/1944; 12/14/1979)
• medal "For Labor Valor" (12/25/1959)
• other medals

• State power of the USSR. The supreme bodies of power and administration and their leaders. 1923-1991 Historical and Biographical Handbook / Comp. V.I. Ivkin. Moscow, 1999 .-- ISBN 5-8243-0014-3 .