Grigory Yakovlevich Merkushkin (November 23, 1917, New Verkhissy - January 13, 1979, Saransk) - Soviet statesman and politician; Candidate of Historical Sciences (1947); Minister of Education of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1947-1950), Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1950-1955), Rector of the Mordovian State University (1960-1969).
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| Successor | Alexander Ivanovich Sukharev | ||||||
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| Head of the government | Pavel Antonovich Kokorev Ivan Pavlovich Astaykin | ||||||
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| Head of the government | Nikolay Yakovlevich Tingaev | ||||||
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| Academic degree | Candidate of Historical Sciences | ||||||
| Academic rank | assistant professor | ||||||
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| Years of service | 1938-1944 | ||||||
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Uncle N. I. Merkushkina , President of Mordovia (1995-2012) and Governor of the Samara Region (2012-2017) [1] .
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Biography
He was born in 1917 in the village of Novye Verkhissy (now in the Insarsky district of Mordovia). He graduated from elementary school in Novy Verkhissy, Insarsky secondary school (1934), historical and philological faculty of the Mordovian Pedagogical Institute (1938) [2] .
In 1938 - 1979 he taught history at the Temnikovsky Pedagogical College. Since 1939 he served in the Red Army [K 1] ; after demobilization, he worked as the director of Rybkinsky secondary school (Kovylkinsky district) [2] .
Member of World War II: served in the headquarters of the 117th Infantry Division [3] , fought on the Leningrad and Kalinin fronts [2] . In 1942 he joined the CPSU (b) . Was wounded three times [3] ; in 1944, after a serious wound, he was demobilized as a major [2] .
Since 1944 - Director of the Mordovian Research Institute of Language, Literature, History and Economics , since 1947 - Minister of Education of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic [2] .
In 1950-1955, he was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and in 1955-1960, he was the Secretary of the Mordovian Regional Committee of the CPSU . In 1960-1969 - rector of Mordovia State University; since 1972 - associate professor of the Department of History of the USSR in the same place [2] .
He was elected a deputy (from the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 3rd convocation (1950-1954) [4] .
He died in 1979 in Saransk; buried there [2] .
Creativity
Since the 1950s he has written a number of plays (“In the Name of the People”, “At Dawn”, “Blue Lights”, “Dear Life”, “Star of the Poet”), which were staged at the State Drama Theater of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the National Theater of the Republic Mordovia [2] .
Rewards
- Order of the Red Banner (10.24.1943) [3]
- The order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Order of the Badge of Honor
Comments
- ↑ According to other sources - since 1938 [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Khakhalin R. Look who came . Monday (May 14, 2012). Date of treatment February 4, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mordovian University .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Information from the registration card of the document “ Feat of the People ” awarded in the electronic bank.
- ↑ Deputies of the Supreme Council of the USSR of the III convocation of 1950-1954 . A Handbook on the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991. Date of appeal September 20, 2018.
Links
- Merkushkin Grigory Yakovlevich . Mordovian State University N.P. Ogareva. Date of appeal September 20, 2018. </ref>