Alexander Zasyadko Explained
| Alexander Zasyadko |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Office: | Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union |
| Term Start: | March 31, 1958 |
| Term End: | November 9, 1962 |
| Primeminister: | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Office2: | Chairman of the State Scientific and Economic Council of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union |
| Term Start2: | April 22, 1960 |
| Term End2: | November 9, 1962 |
| Primeminister2: | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Predecessor2: | Joseph Kuzmin |
| Successor2: | Peter Lomako |
| Office3: | Head of the Coal Industry Department of the State Planning Committee of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Minister of the Soviet Union |
| Term Start3: | May 24, 1957 |
| Term End3: | March 31, 1958 |
| Primeminister3: | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Office4: | Minister of the Coal Industry of the Soviet Union |
| Term Start4: | December 28, 1948 |
| Term End4: | March 2, 1955 |
| Primeminister4: | Joseph Stalin
Georgy Malenkov |
| Predecessor4: | Office established |
| Successor4: | Alexander Zademidko |
| Office5: | Minister of the Coal Industry of the Western Regions of the Soviet Union |
| Term Start5: | January 17, 1947 |
| Term End5: | December 28, 1948 |
| Primeminister5: | Joseph Stalin |
| Predecessor5: | Dmitry Onika |
| Successor5: | Office abolished |
| Birth Name: | Alexander Fyodorovich Zasyadko |
| Birth Date: | 7 September 1910 |
| Birth Place: | Gorlovka, Bakhmutsky Uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Resting Place: | Novodevichy Cemetery |
| Party: | All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1931 |
| Education: | Donetsk Mining Institute |
| Awards: | Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner of Labour |
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Alexander Fyodorovich Zasyadko (Russian: Александр Фёдорович Засядько; Ukrainian: Олександр Федорович Засядько; September 7, 1910 – September 5, 1963) was a Soviet economic, state and party leader.
He was a Hero of Socialist Labour (1957), Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of 2–6 Convocations and Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952–1956 and 1961–1963.
Biography
He was born on September 7, 1910, in the village of Gorlovka, Bakhmut Uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate. His father was a miner.[1]
From 1925–1927, he studied at the industrial school in Izyum. In 1935, he graduated from the Donetsk Mining Institute.[2]
- From 1924–1925, he was an apprentice of a locksmith at the Lugansk Railway Carriage–Locomotive Plant;
- From 1927–1930, he a mechanic at Mine No. 8 in Gorlovka, a mechanic–fitter at the Mine Named After the United State Political Administration in Novoshakhtinsk (Azov–Black Sea Territory);
- From 1935, he was Chief Mechanic, Assistant Chief Engineer, Chief Engineer, Manager of Mine No. 10–bis;
- From 1939, Deputy Head of Glavugol, Head of the Stalinugol Combine;
- In 1941–1942 – Head of the Molotovugol Combine;
- In 1942–1943 – Deputy People's Commissar of the Coal Industry of the Soviet Union – Head of the Tulaugol Combine;
- In 1943–1946 – Deputy People's Commissar of the Coal Industry of the Soviet Union – Head of the Stalinugol Combine;
- In 1946–1947 – Deputy Minister of Construction of Fuel Enterprises of the Soviet Union;
- Since January 17, 1947, the Minister of the Coal Industry of the Western Regions of the Soviet Union;
- Since December 28, 1948, the Minister of the Coal Industry of the Soviet Union. According to Serov, in 1951, Zasyadko insisted on replenishing the coal industry enterprises with additional contingents of prisoners.[3] In March 1955, he was relieved of his post "due to unsatisfactory work";
- Since March 2, 1955, Deputy Minister of the Coal Industry of the Soviet Union;
- Since August 8, 1955, to 1956 – Minister of the Coal Industry of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic;
- Since May 24, 1957, to March 31, 1958, Head of the Coal Industry Department of the State Planning Committee of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Minister of the Soviet Union;
- Since March 31, 1958 – Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, at the same time, since April 22, 1960, Chairman of the State Scientific and Economic Council of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union;[1]
- On November 9, 1962, he retired for health reasons.[4]
He died on September 5, 1963, in Moscow.[5]
Awards
- Hammer and Sickle Medal (April 26, 1957);
- Five Orders of Lenin (February 17, 1939; October 20, 1943; January 1, 1948; September 4, 1948; April 26, 1957; September 6, 1960);[1]
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (August 29, 1953);
- Medals, including "For Labour Valour" (September 4, 1948).
Remembrance
Sources
Notes and References
- https://dnnmuseum.ru/засядько-александр-федорович-1910-1963/ Alexander Zasyadko. Museum "House on the Embankment"
- http://www.knowbysight.info/ZZZ/02689.asp Alexander Zasyadko. Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union (1898–1991)
- https://www.rulit.me/books/zapiski-iz-chemodana-tajnye-dnevniki-pervogo-predsedatelya-kgb-najdennye-cherez-25-let-posle-ego-sme-read-459649-204.html Ivan Serov. Notes From the Suitcase. Moscow: Enlightenment. 2017
- http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_z/zasjadkoaf.php Alexander Zasyadko. Chronos
- http://novodevichiynecropol.narod.ru/08/zasyadko_af.htm Alexander Zasyadko. Novodevichy Necropolis
- https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=13003 Alexander Zasyadko. Heroes of the Country
