Marchenko, Ivan Tikhonovich

He was born on July 25 ( August 7 in a new style) in 1908 in Bryansk in a working class family with eight children. His father - Tikhon Ivanovich Marchenko, worked as a train conductor of the Moscow-Kiev railway.

In 1924 he entered the school for factory apprenticeship at the locomotive depot of the Bryansk railway station, after which he worked as a locksmith, and then as an assistant locomotive engineer. ^[1] In 1925 he joined the Komsomol , and in September 1928 he became a candidate for membership in the CPSU (b) . Member of the CPSU (b) since 1929. In 1930-1935 he studied at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers . After graduation, he began to work there.

• in 1935-1938 - deputy head of the faculty, head of graduate school at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers;
• in 1938-1943 - Head of the Political Department of the Western Railway; with the beginning of World War II, he worked on the creation of partisan detachments in the Smolensk region.
• in 1943-1944 - head of the Central Control Group under the People's Commissar of Railways of the USSR;
• in 1944-1946 - Head of the Steam Locomotive Repair Plant of the People’s Commissariat - USSR Ministry of Railways;
• in 1946-1951 - head of the Moscow branch of the Western Railway;
• from 1951 to March 1954 - 1st Secretary of the Soviet District Committee of the CPSU (b) -KPSS ( Moscow );
• from March 29, 1954 to July 15, 1959 - 2nd Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU;
• from February 25, 1956 to October 17, 1961 - member of the Central Committee of the CPSU;
• from May 15, 1959 to November 26, 1965 - 1st Secretary of the Tomsk Regional Committee of the CPSU;
• from October 31, 1961 to March 29, 1966 - candidate for membership in the Central Committee of the CPSU;
• from October 15, 1965 to April 23, 1969 - Minister of Local Industry of the RSFSR.

Since April 1969, I.T. Marchenko was retired. He was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 5 and 6 convocations ^[2] , a deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of the 7th convocation, and also a delegate to the XXII Congress of the CPSU .

He died on September 14, 1972 in Moscow. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery (7th section, 2nd row).

• He was awarded the Order of Lenin, three orders of the Red Banner of Labor, orders of the Red Star and the Badge of Honor, as well as medals, including the Partisan of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (for the exemplary organization of the partisan movement on the Western Railway), and For the Defense of Moscow; "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.", "For valiant labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." ^[one]

• Konovalov A. B. The Party Nomenclature of Siberia in the System of Regional Authority (1945-1991), Kemerovo, 2006.
• Marchenko, Ivan Tikhonovich // Tomsk from A to Z: A Brief Encyclopedia of the City. / Ed. Dr. East. Sciences N. M. Dmitrienko . - 1st ed. - Tomsk: NTL Publishing House, 2004 .-- S. 204-205. - 440 s. - 3,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89503-211-7 .

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