Efim Slavsky | |
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Ефим Славский | |
Minister of Medium Machine Building | |
In office July 24, 1957 – November 22, 1986 | |
Deputy Head of the First Main Directorate | |
In office April 9, 1946 – November 22, 1986 | |
Deputy Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR | |
In office 1945–1946 | |
Efim Pavlovich Slavsky (October 26, 1898 – November 8, 1991) was a Soviet statesman, head of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, and three-time recipient of the Hero of Socialist Labour award.[1] Slavsky was best known for his work cleaning up the Kyshtym disaster in 1957 and again at Chernobyl in 1986.[2] Slavsky was in charge of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, the agency responsible for the construction of nuclear installations in the Soviet Union. Slavsky was also one of the chief designers of the Soviet RBMK nuclear reactor.[3]