Pavel Lobanov

Pavel Pavlovich Lobanov (Russian: Павел Павлович Лобанов; January 15, 1902 – August 13, 1984) was a Soviet bureaucrat and academician. He was a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1952 and a candidate member of the CPSU from 1956 to 1961.

Biography

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

1925 – agronomist of the Shakhovskaya 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.

Awards

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.

Sources

Лобанов Павел Павлович (Lobanov Pavel Pavlovich) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) – via Great Scientific Library

State Power of the Soviet Union. The Highest Authorities And Management And Their Leaders.