Semyon Lobov (politician)
Soviet politician (1888–1937)
Semyon Semyonovich Lobov (Russian: Семён Семёнович Ло́бов; 1888 – 30 October 1937) was a Soviet statesman and politician.
Biography
He was born in to the family of a forester. Lobov graduated from his elementary school and became a worker in various professions, including as a construction worker, draftsman and forester.
Lobov joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1913. He worked in the Rosencrantz plant in Petrograd and after the October Revolution became a member of the Petrograd and Vyborg committees of the RSDLP (b). In the beginning of the Russian Civil War he joined the newly established Soviet secret police, the Cheka, and at first became the deputy head of the Petrograd Cheka and later in March 1919 its chairman. He was then appointed Chairman of Saratov Cheka and later in May 1920 he was appointed Chairman of the Cheka of the Bashkir ASSR.
After the Civil War he transferred to Petrograd and was appointed head of the fuel department of the USSR Oil Syndicate. In 1923 he became the chairman of the North-West Industrial Bureau of the Supreme Council of National Economy and was also a member of the Glavkoncesskom. He was then elected to the Presidium of the Supreme Council of National Economy in 1924 and then served as the Chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy of the RSFSR from 1926 to 1930 and at the same time chairman of the Glavenergo (the Main Energy Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry).
Lobov was a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b) from 1924 to 1934 as well as a member of the Orgburo from 1930 to 1934.
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