Mikhail Vasilyevich Krunichev (russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Хруничев; - June 2, 1961) was a Soviet statesman, lieutenant-general in the technical and engineering corps (1944), who was awarded the title of Soviet

Hero of Socialist Labour The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

in 1945. Krunichev became a member of the

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(russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза or КПСС) in 1921. He was Minister of Aviation Industry from 1946, and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1955 to 1957 and again in 1961.

References

* Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, ed. A. M. Prokhorov

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