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Ministry Of Medium Machine-Building
The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building (, also known as Sredmash) was a Ministries of the Soviet Union, government ministry of the Soviet Union which supervised the Soviet nuclear industry, including production of nuclear warheads. History The ministry was established on the basis of the First Chief Directorate (nuclear industry) and the Third Chief Directorate (development in the area controlled missiles, aircraft, rockets and long range missiles) of the Council of Ministers of the USSR as well as the Central Board of Industrial Building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (''Главпромстрой МВД'') charged with construction of nuclear installations, all of which were in operation since September 1942. The Ministry of Medium Machine Building was established by a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on 26 June 1953. The Central Intelligence Agency initially believed that the ministry oversaw the war industry. On September 11, 1989, after merging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Smelyakov
Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to: People Royalty * Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855 * Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), or Nikolay II, last Emperor of Russia, from 1894 until 1917 * Prince Nikolai of Denmark (born 1999) Other people Nikolai * Nikolai Aleksandrovich (other) or Nikolay Aleksandrovich, several people * Nikolai Antropov (born 1980), Kazakh former ice hockey winger * Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), Russian religious and political philosopher * Nikolai Bogomolov (born 1991), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman * Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician * Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), Soviet politician and minister of defence * Nikolai Chernykh (1931–2004), Russian astronomer * Nikolai Dudorov (1906–1977), Soviet politician * Nikolai Dzhumagaliev (born 1952), Soviet serial killer * Nikola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Establishments In The Soviet Union
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. ** The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the Unidentified flying object, UFO phenomenon. * January 15 ** Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. ** British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record is never broken. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Weapons Program Of The Soviet Union
The Soviet atomic bomb project was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II. Russian physicist Georgy Flyorov suspected that the Allies of World War II, Allied powers were secretly developing a "Weapon of mass destruction, superweapon" since 1939. Flyorov urged Stalin to start a nuclear program in 1942. Early efforts mostly consisted of research at Kurchatov Institute, Laboratory No. 2 in Moscow, and intelligence gathering of Soviet-sympathizing atomic spies in the US Manhattan Project. Subsequent efforts involved plutonium production at Mayak in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk and weapon research and assembly at KB-11 in Sarov. After Stalin learned of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nuclear program was accelerated through intelligence gathering about the Manhattan Project and German nuclear weapon project. Espionage coups, especially via Klaus Fuchs and David Greenglass, included detailed descripti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Medium Machine Building
The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building (, also known as Sredmash) was a government ministry of the Soviet Union which supervised the Soviet nuclear industry, including production of nuclear warheads. History The ministry was established on the basis of the First Chief Directorate (nuclear industry) and the Third Chief Directorate (development in the area controlled missiles, aircraft, rockets and long range missiles) of the Council of Ministers of the USSR as well as the Central Board of Industrial Building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (''Главпромстрой МВД'') charged with construction of nuclear installations, all of which were in operation since September 1942. The Ministry of Medium Machine Building was established by a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on 26 June 1953. The Central Intelligence Agency initially believed that the ministry oversaw the war industry. On September 11, 1989, after merging with the Ministry of Atomic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of General Machine Building
The Ministry of General Machine-Building (; MOM), also known as ''Minobshchemash'', was a government ministry of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1957 and from 1965 to 1991. The ministry supervised design bureaus that managed the research, development, and production of ballistic missiles as well as launch vehicles and satellites in the Soviet space program. While Soviet rocketry organizations date back to 1921, the Ministry of General Machine-Building, upon being founded in 1955, became a dedicated department for aerospace technology. It was dissolved in 1957 but was reinstated in 1965. Various projects of the Soviet space program were developed at the ministry. It also began commercially providing launch services abroad through its Glavkosmos agency during the ''perestroika'' reforms of the late 1980s. The ministry was permanently abolished in 1991 amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Russian Space Agency, which would later become Roscosmos, was created in 1992 as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Shishkin (politician)
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 * 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Ryabev
Lev or LEV may refer to: People and fictional characters *Lev (given name) *Lev (surname) Places *Lev, Azerbaijan, a village * Lev (crater), a tiny lunar crater Religion *an abbreviation for Leviticus, the third book of the Hebrew Bible and the Torah *Lay eucharistic visitor, an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion approved by a church (usually Episcopalian or Lutheran) to bring Communion to the homebound *Libreria Editrice Vaticana, the Vatican Publishing House Transportation * Leyland Experimental Vehicle, a type of British experimental railbus *Light electric vehicle, an electric bicycle *Low emission vehicle, a motor vehicle that emits relatively low levels of motor vehicle emissions *Lunar Excursion Vehicle, an early name for the Apollo Lunar Module Political and other * Lesser evil voting (LEV) *Lev (political party), a now-defunct political party in Israel *LEV (cable system), a submarine cable system linking countries in the eastern Mediterranean *''Lev!'', a Swedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efim P
Efim is a given name, also spelled as Yefim. It is derived from the Greek name ''Euthymios'' (Εὐθύμιος; ; latinized as ''Euthymius''). Notable people with the name include: * Efim Alexandrov (born 1960), Russian-Jewish comedian * Efim Bogoljubov (1889–1962), Russian-German chess grandmaster * Efim Dzigan (1898–1981), Soviet film director * Efim Etkind (1918–1999), Russian philologist * Efim Fradkin (1924–1999), Russian physicist *Efim Geller (1925–1998), Soviet chess grandmaster * Efim Jourist (1947–2007), Ukrainian composer * Efim Kolbintsev (1875–), Russian peasant, treasurer, merchant and deputy of the Fourth Imperial Duma from Orenburg Governorate * Efim Motpan (born 1971), Moldovan racewalker * Efim Shifrin (born 1956), Russian actor *Efim Zelmanov (born 1955), Russian-American mathematician * Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov and Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov (1774–1842) and (1803–1849), Russian inventors, father and son *Yefim Bronfman (born 1958), Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Pervukhin
Mikhail Georgiyevich Pervukhin (; 14 October Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>O.S. 1 October1904 – 22 July 1978) was a Soviet people">Soviet politician and an engineer who served as people's commissar for various commissions under Council of Ministers from 1955 to 1957. Early life and career He was born on 14 October 1904 in the village of Yuryuzansky Zavod, Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire">Ufa_Governorate.html" ;"title="Yuryuzan, Chelyabinsk Oblast">Yuryuzansky Zavod, Yuryuzan, Chelyabinsk Oblast">Yuryuzansky Zavod, Ufa Governorate, Russian Empire to a Russian working class">working-class family. Pervukhin was a political activist for the communist cause and became a party member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Russian Communist Party in 1919. In August to September 1919, Pervukhin was a member of the Zlatoust city commission on the nationalisation of property belonging to the Russian bourgeoisie. He began working for the Zlatoust newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraami Zavenyagin
Avraamiy Pavlovich Zavenyagin (Russian:Авраамий Завенягин; 1 May 1901 – 31 December 1956), was Soviet politician and a security service operative who was a senior program manager in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons in the 1950s.Richard Lee Miller, Under the cloud: the decades of nuclear testing, 1986John Scott, Behind the Urals: an American worker in Russia's City of Steel, 1942 Biography and early career Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin was born in Uzlovaya, which is near Moscow, in 1901. His date of birth is noted as 1 April 1901 ( O.S by internet source), which adjusted to as 14 April 1901 with New Style date system. His first name is also sometimes given as Avram or Abraham. Zavenyagin was ethnically Russian. In 1917, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was a devout communist who received his education and diploma from the (a predecessor of Moscow State Mining University) before starting his career as an engineer. Zavenyagin was mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministries Of The Soviet Union
The Ministries of the Soviet Union () were the Government of the Soviet Union, government Ministry (government department), ministries of the Soviet Union. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the previous bureaucratic apparatus of bourgeois ministers was replaced by People's Commissariats (; Narkom), staffed by new employees drawn from workers and peasants. On 15 March 1946 the people's commissariats were transformed into ministries. The name change had no practical effects, other than restoring a designation previously considered a leftover of the bourgeois era. The collapse of the ministry system was one of the main causes behind the dissolution of the Soviet Union. State Committee of the Soviet Union, State Committees were also subordinated to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union and had similar powers and rights. History After the end of World War II, Commissariats were reorganized to meet the needs of reconstruction. The Commissariats of the Tank Industry and of Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
