Pavel Lobanov

Pavel Lobanov
Павел Лобанов
Lobanov in 1959
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office February 28, 1955 – April 9, 1956
Prime Minister	Nikolay Bulganin
5th People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Farms of the Soviet Union
In office December 10, 1938 – March 15, 1946
Prime Minister	Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin
Preceded by	Tikhon Yurkin
Succeeded by	Office abolished
6th Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
In office July 14, 1956 – March 18, 1962
Preceded by	Alexander Volkov
Succeeded by	Ivan Spiridonov
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office 1953–1955
Prime Minister	Alexander Puzanov
1st Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office December 20, 1953 – March 26, 1955
Prime Minister	Alexander Puzanov
Preceded by	Himself as Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Succeeded by	Peter Morozov
2nd Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office August 15, 1953 – December 20, 1953
Prime Minister	Alexander Puzanov
Preceded by	Alexander Fedin
Succeeded by	Office abolished
9th People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office 1938 – December 1938
Preceded by	Nikolay Lisitsyn
Succeeded by	Alexey Sukhov
Personal details
Born	Pavel Pavlovich Lobanov January 15, 1902 Staro, Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	August 13, 1984 (aged 82) Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Political party	All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) – Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1927
Education	Moscow Agricultural Academy Named After Kliment Timiryazev (1925)
Portfolio	Doctor of Economics, Academician of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1948)
Awards	Hero of Socialist Labour Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of Friendship of Peoples Medal "For Labour Valour"

Pavel Pavlovich Lobanov (Russian: Павел Павлович Лобанов; January 15, 1902 – August 13, 1984) was a Soviet statesman and economic leader. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of 4, 5, 7–9 convocations. Member of the Central Auditing Commission of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolshevikss) (1939–1952), candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1956–1961). Academician of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1948), Doctor of Economics (1967). Hero of Socialist Labour (1971).

Lobanov was born into a peasant family. He graduated from the Agronomic Faculty of the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1925.

• 1925 – agronomist of the Shakhovsky Section of the Volokolamsky Uyezd of the Moscow Region;
• 1925–1926 – served in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army;
• 1926–1927 – agronomist for grain inspection of the elevator of the Moscow–Kazan railway;
• 1927–1930 – agronomist of the Kostroma District and district land administration;
• 1930–1931 – technical director of the Soviet Farm "Ilyich's Precepts", Ivanovo Oblast;
• 1931–1936 – postgraduate student at the All–Union Scientific Research Institute of Soviet Farms;
• 1936–1937 – head of the department of the Moscow Institute of Land Management;
• 1937 – Director of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute;
• 1937–1938 – Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
• 1938 – People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
• 1938–1946 – People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Farms of the Soviet Union;
• 1946–1953 – Deputy, 1st Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Soviet Union;
• 1953 – 1st Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Soviet Union;
• 1953–1955 – First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (since 1953 – Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic);
• 1955–1956 – Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union;
• 1956–1961 – President of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (until 1962);
• 1961–1965 – Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union;
• 1965–1978 – President of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

From 1978, he was a personal pensioner.

He died in 1984 and is buried in the city of Dmitrov.

• Hero of Socialist Labour;
• Two Orders of Lenin;
• Order of the October Revolution;
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour;
• Order of Friendship of Peoples.

• Лобанов Павел Павлович (Lobanov Pavel Pavlovich) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)
• State Power of the Soviet Union. The Highest Authorities And Management And Their Leaders. 1923–1991. Historical and Biographical Reference Book / Compiled by Vladimir Ivkin. Moscow, 1999 – ISBN 5-8243-0014-3

• "Pavel Lobanov". Герои страны ("Heroes of the Country") (in Russian).
• Lobanov Pavel Pavlovich – article from the Biographical Encyclopedia of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences Named After Lenin
• Biography in the Handbook of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union