Boris Shcherbina

Boris Shcherbina
Борис Щербина
Shcherbina in 1985
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
In office
13 January 1984 – 7 June 1989 (1984-01-13 – 1989-06-07)
Chairman
Minister of Construction of the Oil and Gas Industries
In office
11 December 1973 – 13 January 1984 (1973-12-11 – 1984-01-13)
Chairman
Preceded byAleksei K. Kortunov [ru]
Succeeded byVladimir Chirskov
Personal details
Born(1919-10-05)5 October 1919
Debaltsevo, Donets Governorate, Ukrainian SSR
(now Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine)
Died22 August 1990(1990-08-22) (aged 70)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1939–1990)
SpouseRaisa Pavlovna Shcherbina
ChildrenYuri Borisovich Shcherbina
OccupationRailway engineer
Known forCrisis management of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and 1988 Armenian earthquake; Chairman of the Chernobyl Commission
AwardsHero of Socialist Labor
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union
Service years1939–1942
ConflictThe Winter War [clarification needed]

Boris Yevdokimovich Shcherbina (Russian: Борис Евдокимович Щербина; Ukrainian: Борис Євдокимович Щербина, romanizedBorys Yevdokymovych Shcherbyna; 5 October 1919 – 22 August 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1989. During this period he supervised Soviet crisis management of two major catastrophes: the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake.[1][2]

  1. ^ Hewitt, Ed A.; Winston, Victor H. (1 December 2010). Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka: Politics and People. Brookings Institution Press. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-0-8157-1914-4.
  2. ^ Plokhy, Serhii (15 May 2018). Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe. Basic Books. pp. 299–. ISBN 978-1-5416-1708-7.