Ivan Semenovich Senin (December 13, 1903 - 1981) was the First Deputy Chairman of the

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, a member of the

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, and a Member of the Presidium of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Biography

Ivan Senin was born in 1903, into a miner's family in

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. In 1917 he graduated from school in

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, and started working at the mine No. 19 at Rutchenkovo, where for four years he was a lamp carrier, and horse driver. In 1921, he was elected the secretary of Rutchenkovo Komsomol committee. In autumn 1922, Senin began studying at Donetsk technical school named after Artem. After the workers' school Ivan Senin graduated from Polytechnic Institute in Kyiv in 1930, then he entered postgraduate school. In 1931 he was appointed the Head engineer of the Kyiv factory "Krasny Humovyk" and in 1932 he worked as Director of "Ukrkabel" plant. In 1938 Ivan Senin was appointed Deputy People's Commissar of USSR consumer industry, and in a year he became People's Commissar.

World War II

In 1940-1942 Ivan Senin was appointed the Deputy Chairman of

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of USSR. In 1941, during

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he led the command group of the Southwestern Front, starting from December 1942 he worked in the

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. In 1943 he's back for the position of Deputy Chairman of People's Commissars, in 1943-1953 he worked in the position of the Deputy Head of Council of Ministers.

Political activities

In 1949–1965 years he was the member of the

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, later - member of Presidium of the Central Committee of Ukrainian TsK VKP(b), in 1956–1961 years - candidate member to the Communist Party Central Committee, in 1961–1966 years - member of the Communist Party Central Committee, Deputy of Supreme Soviet of

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

(1947–1967) and of

Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Верховный Совет Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, r=Verkhovnyy Sovet Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respubl ...

(1946–1966). In the period of 1953-1965 Ivan Senin was appointed the First Deputy Head of Government (in 1957-1959 - the Head of

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of USSR). As a member of USSR delegation, in 1945 Ivan Senin participated in the UN conference in

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, in 1947 in

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on behalf of USSR Government he signed peace treaties with

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and

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. Ivan Senin died in 1981. He was buried in Kyiv, at

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Awards

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration b ...

(4 times) *

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

References

*''The information in this article is based on that in its Ukrainian equivalent''.

External links

Ivan Senin short bio at Electronic Library - Books and People

Reference guide on the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991
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