Gleb Krzhizhanovsky | |
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Глеб Кржижановский | |
Chairman of the State Planning Committee | |
In office February 1921 – 11 December 1923 | |
Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
Preceded by | Post established |
Succeeded by | Alexander Tsiurupa |
In office 18 November 1925 – 10 November 1930 | |
Premier | Alexei Rykov |
Preceded by | Alexander Tsiurupa |
Succeeded by | Valerian Kuybyshev |
Personal details | |
Born | Samara, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire | 24 January 1872
Died | 31 March 1959 Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 87)
Resting place | Kremlin Wall Necropolis |
Political party | Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (1898–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1959) |
Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology |
Occupation | Scientist, translator, writer |
Awards | Hero of Socialist Labour |
Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky (Russian: Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский; 24 January [O.S. 12 January] 1872 – 31 March 1959) was a Soviet scientist, statesman, revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and state figure as well as a geographer and writer.[1][2]
Born to the family of a nobleman of Polish descent (Polish surname: Krzyżanowski), he became the longtime chairman of the Gosplan and director of the GOELRO, an Academician of Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1957).
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