Bobykin, Leonid Fedorovich

In 1953 he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. S. M. Kirov , specialty "mechanical equipment of metallurgical plants".

After graduation, he worked as a design engineer at Uralmashzavod , in November 1954 he was elected 2nd Secretary of the Ordzhonikidze District Komsomol of Sverdlovsk, but a year later he left the Komsomol job and returned back to the factory, worked as a shift foreman, workshop foreman, group leader of the chief designer rolling equipment of Uralmashzavod. In 1956 he joined the Communist Party.

In 1961 he switched to party work, becoming first the second, and from February 1963 - the first secretary of the Ordzhonikidze district committee of the CPSU of Sverdlovsk . In March 1969 he was transferred to the Sverdlovsk city committee of the CPSU as the second secretary, and in October 1971 he became the head of the city committee.

In November 1976, when forming the new leadership of the regional committee (headed by B. N. Yeltsin ), Bobykin was elected secretary for mechanical engineering and the defense industry, but in February 1977 he was promoted to second secretary of the regional committee. In May 1983 he was transferred to the central office, first he was the deputy head, and since January 1986, he was the head of the Department of Light Industry and Consumer Goods of the CPSU Central Committee . At the XXVII Congress of the CPSU (February 1986) he was elected a candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee.

June 16, 1988 was elected first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU. At the XIX party conference, he sent a note to the presidium condemning the delegate who spoke in support of B. N. Yeltsin ^[1] . He was at the head of the region for a little over a year and a half, on February 12, 1990, two weeks after the 60th anniversary, he was retired. Personal pensioner of national importance.

• Candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1986-1990);
• Member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR IX-XI convocations;
• The delegate of the XXIII, XXV — XXVII congresses of the CPSU and XIX All-Union Party Conference.

• Order of Lenin (1976)
• Order of the October Revolution (1982)
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1966, 1971)
• Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1974)
• Medals: “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (1945/1995), “For the Development of Virgin Lands” (1957), “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the centenary of the birth of V.I. Lenin ”(1969),“ Thirty years of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ”(1975),“ 30 years of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army ”(1975),“ 60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ”(1978),“ 40 years Victories in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ”(1985),“ 70 years of the Cheka-KGB ”(1987),“ 70 years of the USSR Armed Forces ”(1988),“ Veteran of Labor ”(1990),“ 50 years of victory in The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "(1995)," In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow "(1997)
• Two gold medals of VDNH (1975, 1978)
• Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR (1973)

• Sushkov A.V., Razinkov S. L. The leaders of the Sverdlovsk region: the first secretaries of the regional committee of the CPSU (b) —KPSS and the chairmen of the regional executive committee. 1934-1991: a biographical guide. Yekaterinburg: Bank of Cultural Information, 2003. S. 78-81. [one]

• Sushkov A. V. The leaders of the city of Sverdlovsk: the first secretaries of the city committee of the CPSU (b) —KPSS (1932–1991), the second secretaries of the city committee of the CPSU (b) (1937–1950): a historical and biographical reference book. Yekaterinburg: Bank of Cultural Information, 2007. P. 79-83. [2]

• The Ural Worker, June 17, 1988, No. 139 (21944)

• Central Committee of the CPSU, VKP (b), RCP (b), RSDLP (b): historical and biographical reference book / Comp. Yu. V. Goryachev. M .: Publishing house "Parade", 2005. 496 p.

• L. F. Bobykin in the Free Encyclopedia of the Urals - Encyclopedia "Engineers of the Urals"

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