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General Machinebuilding - Leadership

Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasiev  03.1965 - 1983
Oleg Dmitrievich Baklanov       05.1983 - 1988
Vitaliy Husseynovich Doguzhiev  03.1988 - 1989
Oleg Nikolayevich Shishkin      07.1989 - 1991

Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev was the first minister (March 2, 1965 - April 8, 1983). Then there was Oleg Dmitrievich Baklanov (April 8, 1983 - March 25, 1988), who later became secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and a member of the State Emergency Committee. After him, Vitaly Husseynovich Doguzhiev became Minister (March 25, 1988 - June 7, 1989), and then Oleg Nikolayevich Shishkin [1989 - 1991].

Oleg Dmitrievich Baklanov (b. 1932) - member of the party since 1953, member of the Central Committee since 1986, secretary of the Central Committee since 18.02.88, candidate of technical sciences (since 1969).

Oleg Dmitrievich was born in Kharkov. Ukrainian. He began his labor activity in 1950 as a fitter at a defense plant. Worked as a tuner, foreman, site manager, deputy chief and shop manager, deputy chief engineer of the plant. In 1958 he graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Energy Institute. Candidate of Technical Sciences. In the years 1963-1976. he was chief engineer, director of the Kharkov instrument-making plant, general director of the production association "Monolith" of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.

Since 1976, he was Deputy, First Deputy Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR. In April 1983 he was appointed Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR. He held this post until February 1988. In 1988-1991, he was Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. He was in charge of the defense industry. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the 11th convocation. People's Deputy of the USSR since 1989. Hero of Socialist Labor (1976), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1982).

He opposed the concessions of Mikhail S. Gorbachev to the West in matters of disarmament, defended the interests of the military-industrial complex, and proved himself worthy successor to Dmitry Ustinov in this respect. He was going to deliver a speech at the April 1991 Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the text of which was found during the search at the time of the arrest: "The idea that there is no military threat from outside our people is illusory today. We have already made colossal unilateral reductions in the Armed Forces, the production of weapons and military equipment, and the conduct of scientific and design work in the field of defense. The military parity achieved in the 1970s with a tremendous effort of the people and the means of the people has been destroyed, and we live practically under the dictation of the United States, which has become in fact the undivided ruler of countries and peoples, the world gendarme ... "

The way out of the current crisis situation was seen in the restoration of the integrity of the USSR within the 1985 borders, in the establishment of the National Salvation Committee with extraordinary powers, up to the introduction of the state of emergency in the country: "Emergency measures can be implemented only by an extraordinary political power that has a branched structure permeating all strata of society, all spheres of the national economy. Such power can only be the CPSU, let it be exsanguinated, excommunicated from the levers of government, but retains vertical structures, and hence the ability and ability to govern on the basis of the iron discipline of its members ... "

From 18 to 21 August 1991 he was a member of the State Emergency Committee. He was with V. A. Kryuchkov and the head of the staff of the President of the USSR V.I.Boldin in a summer cottage cooperative, he received a loan with them for 10 years. 08/18/1991 together with OS Shenin , the commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces VI Varennikov, the head of the staff of the President of the USSR VI Boldin and the head of the Security Service of the KGB of the USSR Yu. S. Plekhanov on an airplane belonging to Defense Minister D. T. Yazov , flew to Foros to Mikhail S. Gorbachev in order to persuade to introduce a state of emergency in the country.

On the night of 19.08.1991, together with GI Yanayev and the Prime Minister of the USSR, V. S. Pavlov signed the "Statement of the Soviet leadership" on the establishment of the State Committee for the Emergency Situation in the USSR (USSR State Committee for the State of Emergency). 19 - 21.08.1991.

From August 1991 to January 1993, he was in custody, accused of conspiracy to seize power, but was later amnestied along with other defendants in the case. Then he was the chairman of the board of directors of the corporation JSC "Rosobshchemash", which managed programs on rocket and space technology. Chairman of the Society of Friendship and Cooperation of Peoples of Ukraine and Russia. The putschists and their supporters after the State Emergency Committee, they - who more, less successfully - took advantage of market reforms, and they more than successfully blended into the new reality for them.

Vitaliy Husseynovich Doguzhiev worked as an engineer-technologist, senior engineer-technologist of the design department, head of the mechanic-assembly shop of motor production. Labor activity at the Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant V.Kh. Doguzhiev began in 1958 after graduating from Dnepropetrovsk State University with a degree in mechanical engineering. Worked as an engineer-technologist, senior engineer-technologist of the design department, head of the mechanic-assembly shop of motor production. In 1967-1976, he was the director of the Ust-Katavsky Carriage Works named after S.M. Kirov. In 1974 he graduated from the Institute of Management of the National Economy under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. From January 6, 1976 to June 1, 1983, the first deputy chief designer of the Design Bureau of Machine Building - director of the Zlatoust Machine Building Plant of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR. He made a great personal contribution to the technical re-equipment of the plant for the production of ballistic missiles of submarines of a new generation.

In 1983-1987 - Deputy Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on February 18, 1984 V.Kh. Doguzhiev was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the gold medal "Hammer and Sickle" for his great personal contribution to the task of creating the RSM-52 complex. In 1987-1988 - First Deputy Minister, and from March 25, 1988 to June 7, 1989 - Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR. From July 17, 1989 to December 26, 1990 - Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR - Chairman of the State Commission of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Emergencies. From January 15 to November 26, 1991, First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR.

On the night of 19.08.1991, together with GI Yanayev and the Prime Minister of the USSR, V. S. Pavlov signed the "Statement of the Soviet leadership" on the establishment of the State Committee for the Emergency Situation in the USSR (USSR State Committee for the State of Emergency). 19 - 21.08.1991.

O.D.Baklanov ordered that V.Kh.Doguzhiev, acting head of government in connection with the illness of V. Pavlov, twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, provide the State Emergency Committee with statistics on the state of affairs in the economy. V.Kh.Doguzhiev replied sharply: "Does not D. Baklanov know that the collection of operational statistics has long been abolished?"

V. Kh. Dogugzhieva supported Yu. D. Maslyukov: "You can lower prices. But where can I get money to subsidize production? There is no money for this in the budget. " They remembered inviolable military supplies. But then "got" DT Yazov . He knew that army reserves were only for the army, and then for a few days. And for the 300 million population of the country, stocks are enough for just one day. The loans were closed.

Vitaliy Husseynovich Doguzhiev died 03 October 2016. A remarkable man, a great hard worker, left a bright, indelible mark in the hearts of all who knew him. The striking vitality, integrity, honesty and professional talent of Vitaly Husseinovich remained forever the memory of Zlatoust machine engineers.

Oleg Nikolayevich Shishkin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Communications (1957). Worked in TsNIIMash (1957-1966) in the posts of the head of the group, laboratory, department. He was on economic work (1966-1968). He headed the Research Institute of Measuring Technology (1969-1977). Director General of Research Institute of Precision Instruments (1977-1981). Deputy. Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR on the space theme (1983-1989). Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR (1989-1991). President of the association "Rosobshmash" (1991-1992). The creator of on-board and ground telemetry instruments and computers for their automated processing, which were equipped with ICBMs, MS, LV, spacecraft, spacecraft, PKK, ground, ship, mobile and airborne measuring points and CCs of the cosmodromes Baikonur, Plesetsk, Kapustin Yar, KNK GUKOS and other testing centers of the Ministry of Defense and the USSR IOM.

He was Chief Designer of the Center for Operational Technical Control of Communication Satellite "Molniya-1" and "Korund". The general designer of the docking system of the spacecraft and the system of automated collection and processing of the measuring information of the CIC GUKOS. Head of work on the creation, preparation and successful holding of 2 historical launches of the RSC Energia-Buran. Hero of Socialist Labor (1982). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1986). testing centers of the Ministry of Defense and the USSR IOM. Chief Designer of the Center for Operational Technical Control of Communication Satellite "Molniya-1" and "Korund". The general designer of the docking system of the spacecraft and the system of automated collection and processing of the measuring information of the CIC GUKOS.

He was head of work on the creation, preparation and successful holding of 2 historical launches of the RSC Energia-Buran. Hero of Socialist Labor (1982). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1986). testing centers of the Ministry of Defense and the USSR IOM. Chief Designer of the Center for Operational Technical Control of Communication Satellite "Molniya-1" and "Korund". The general designer of the docking system of the spacecraft and the system of automated collection and processing of the measuring information of the CIC GUKOS. Head of work on the creation, preparation and successful holding of 2 historical launches of the RSC Energia-Buran. Hero of Socialist Labor (1982). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1986). . Hero of Socialist Labor (1982). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1986). Hero of Socialist Labor (1982). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1986).