Oleg Shishkin (politician)

Oleg Nikolaevich Shishkin
Oleg Shishkin at the International Leonardo Prize ceremony
Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR
In office
July 17, 1989 – August 28, 1991
*(acting until November 26, 1991)
Premier
Preceded byVitaly Husseynovich Doguzhiev
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
BornJune 26, 1934
Sudogda, Ivanovo Industrial Region (now Vladimir Oblast)
NationalitySoviet
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1956-1991)
EducationMoscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (1957)
Awards

Oleg Shishkin (born June 26, 1934, in Sudogda, Ivanovo Industrial Region, now Vladimir Oblast) was a politician who served as Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.

Biography

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  • 1952–1957: Student at the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications.
  • 1957–1960: Junior Researcher at the Central Scientific Research Institute No. 22 of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.
  • 1960–1962: Senior Engineer at NII-88 in Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast.
  • 1962–1963: First Secretary of the Komsomol (VLKSM) in Kaliningrad, head of the industrial and transport department of the Komsomol in the Moscow Oblast.
  • 1963–1965: Deputy Head of the NII-88 department.
  • 1965–1966: Secretary of the Komsomol in Kaliningrad.
  • 1966–1977: Director of the Institute of Measurement Technology of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
  • 1977: Director and Chief Designer of the NII of Precision Instruments of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
  • 1977–1981: General Director and Chief Designer of the Scientific-Production Association of Precision Instruments of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
  • From 1981 in the apparatus of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR: Deputy Minister, and from 1987, First Deputy Minister.
  • 1989–1991: Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.[1]
  • 1991–1994: President of Rosobshchemash.

He retired in 1994.

Awards and decorations

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Sources

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  • "State Power of the USSR. Supreme Authorities and Their Leaders. 1923–1991: Historical and Biographical Directory" / Compiled by V. I. Ivkin. – Moscow, 1999. – ISBN 5-8243-0014-3.

References

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  1. ^ "Soviet Union Military Affairs USSR MINISTRY OF DEFENSE: PERSONNEL DIRECTORY JANUARY 1991" (PDF). JPRS Report. FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE. 1991-01-15.