Nikolai Baibakov

Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Байбако́в) (6 March 1911, Sabunchu, near Baku, Russian Empire – 31 March 2008, Moscow) was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished secondary school in 1928 and entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, from which he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer. In 1935, he was drafted into the armed forces. After completing his military service, he was appointed chief of the oilfield production department in an industrial complex in the USSR. Later he was promoted to chief engineer, then general director. He was in charge of evacuating oil industry facilities to the eastern regions during the Nazi invasion. Then he was appointed as narkom of the oil Industry of the USSR in 1944 serving until 1946. Because of his success in the planning of the oil industry sector of the Soviet Union and experience in economics, he was appointed as the head of Gosplan (State Planning Committee) of the USSR twice (1955–1957, 1965–1985).

Nikolai Baibakov Никола́й Байбако́в
Chairman of the State Planning Committee
In office 2 October 1965 – 14 October 1985
Premier	served under Alexei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Pyotr Lomako
Succeeded by	Nikolai Talyzin
In office 25 May 1955 – 3 May 1957
Premier	Nikolai Bulganin
Preceded by	Maksim Saburov
Succeeded by	Joseph Kuzmin
Minister of Oil Industry
In office 28 December 1948 – 25 May 1955
Premier	Joseph Stalin Nikolai Bulganin
Preceded by	Post reestablished
Succeeded by	Mikhail Evseenko
In office 30 November 1944 – 4 March 1946
Premier	Joseph Stalin
Preceded by	Ivan Sedin
Succeeded by	Post abolished (post reestablished in 1948)
Personal details
Born	(1911-03-06)6 March 1911 Sabunchu, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	31 March 2008(2008-03-31) (aged 97) Moscow, Russian Federation
Nationality	Soviet/Russian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1935-1988)

Nikolai Baibakov retired in 1985. But he continued to work as a state councilor in the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the USSR as of 1988. Then he was appointed head of the oil and gas section of the Academic Board of the Oil and Gas Institute with the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1]