Peter Ivanovich Parshin ( 1899 - 1970 ) - Soviet statesman. Laureate of the Stalin Prize ( 1953 ). Colonel General of the Engineering Service ( 1944 ).
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| Head of the government | Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich , Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich | ||||||||
| Predecessor | The post was established, Viktor Konstantinovich Lvov as People's Commissar of Machine Building of the USSR. | ||||||||
| Successor | the position is abolished, he is also the People's Commissar of the USSR mortar weapons | ||||||||
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| Head of the government | Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich | ||||||||
| Predecessor | position established. | ||||||||
| Successor | the position is abolished, he is also the People's Commissar of Mechanical Engineering and Instrumentation of the USSR | ||||||||
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| Head of the government | Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich | ||||||||
| Predecessor | position established. | ||||||||
| Successor | the position is abolished, he is also the Minister of Engineering and Instrumentation of the USSR | ||||||||
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| Head of the government | Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich | ||||||||
| Predecessor | Position established. | ||||||||
| Successor | Position abolished. | ||||||||
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| Head of the government | Malenkov, George Maximilianovich , Bulganin, Nikolai Alexandrovich | ||||||||
| Predecessor | the post was established, Stepan Akopovich Akopov as Minister of Engineering of the USSR. | ||||||||
| Successor | position abolished. | ||||||||
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| The consignment | CPSU since 1928 | ||||||||
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||
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Biography
Born on October 4 ( October 16 ), 1899 at the Voeikovo station (now Belinskaya station, Kamenka, now Penza region ) in a family of a railway worker.
In 1917 he graduated from the Penza Railway Technical School.
Since March 1917, he worked as a track service technician on the Syzran-Vyazemsky railway.
In 1922 - 1924 he studied at the Petrograd Polytechnic of Railways, after which he went to work at the State Metro plant in Leningrad . At the plant, he went from a locksmith to a chief engineer.
From April 1927 to August 1937, Peter Parshin worked as director of the Gosmetr weight factory. In 1928 he joined the ranks of the CPSU (b) . From August to December 1937 he was head of the Main Directorate of Medium Engineering of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR . In January 1938 he was transferred to the post of Deputy Commissar of Mechanical Engineering of the USSR .
Since February 1939 he worked as People's Commissar of the General Engineering of the USSR. In November 1941, the People’s Commissariat was transformed into the People’s Commissariat of the USSR mortar weapons . During the Great Patriotic War, Peter Ivanovich Parshin led the organization of the production of guards rocket mortars at enterprises transferred to the people's commissariat.
In February 1946, Pyotr Parshin headed the People's Commissariat of Mechanical Engineering and Instrument Engineering of the USSR [1] , which he directed until January 1956, with a break from March 1953 to April 1954 , when he worked as First Deputy Minister of Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
Since 1956 he worked as Deputy Minister of Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
In 1957, in connection with the Khrushchev purge of the state apparatus, Pyotr Ivanovich Parshin was retired.
Candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952-1956). Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 2nd convocation (1946-1950).
Peter Ivanovich Parshin died on October 11, 1970 . He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery (plot number 7).
Memory
In 2000, the school No. 10 of Kamenka in the Penza region was named after P. I. Parshin, a former student of the school (order of the Head of the Administration of the City of Kamenka of December 28, 2000, No. 236). A memorial plaque is installed on the school building.
Awards and Prizes
- five orders of Lenin (including 10.20.1949)
- Order of Kutuzov I degree (11/18/1944) [2] ;
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor ;
- Stalin Prize ( 1953 ).
Notes
- ↑ Soon, the People’s Commissariat of Mechanical Engineering and Instrument Engineering was transformed into a ministry.
- ↑ “For the exemplary fulfillment of the tasks of the Command for providing the active Red Army with artillery weapons and ammunition” - Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 11/18/1944 - ON REWARDING GENERALS, OFFICERS, AND DESIGNERS OF THE WEAPONS AND AMMUNITY - 19. 19 Krasnaya Gazeta . No. 274 (5954)
Literature
- State power of the USSR. The supreme bodies of power and administration and their leaders. 1923-1991 Historical and biographical reference book./ Comp. V.I. Ivkin. Moscow, 1999. - ISBN 5-8243-0014-3