Avraami Zavenyagin

Avraami Zavenyagin
Авраамий Завенягин
Zavenyagin in 1938
Minister of Medium Machine Building
In office
28 February 1955 – 31 December 1956
PremierNikolai Bulganin
Preceded byVyacheslav Malyshev
Succeeded byMikhail Pervukhin
Personal details
Born(1901-04-14)14 April 1901
Uzlovaya, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire
Died31 December 1956(1956-12-31) (aged 55)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
EducationMoscow Mining Academy [ru]

Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin (1 May 1901 – 31 December 1956; his first name is also sometimes given as Avram or Abraham) was a Soviet politician and an operative who was a leading figure in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons in 1950s.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Antony Beevor, The fall of Berlin, 1945, 2002
  2. ^ Richard Lee Miller, Under the cloud: the decades of nuclear testing, 1986
  3. ^ George A. Lopez and Nancy J. Myers, Peace and security: the next generation, 1997
  4. ^ John Scott, Behind the Urals: an American worker in Russia's City of Steel, 1942