Office: | Minister of Electrical Equipment Industry |
Premier: | Nikolai Ryzhkov |
Term Start: | 20 July 1986 |
Term End: | 24 August 1991 |
Successor: | Office abolished |
Birth Name: | Oleg Grigoriyevich Anfimov |
Birth Date: | 19 February 1937 |
Birth Place: | Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Soviet Union |
Party: | Communist Party |
Alma Mater: | Riga Polytechnical Institute |
Nationality: | Russian |
Oleg Anfimov (Олег Анфимов; 19 February 1937 – 9 July 2019) was a Soviet engineer and politician who was the minister of electrical equipment industry of the Soviet Union between 1986 and 1991.
Anfimov was born in Shakhty on 19 February 1937.[1] [2] He was a graduate of the Riga Polytechnical Institute where he obtained a degree in electromechanical engineering.[3] He was a member of the Communist Party.[3] He served in different posts in the party, including the Riga Gorkom Party secretary and secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Latvia.[3] [4] He was general director of Riga electro-machinery works from 1981 to 1983.[1] He served as the minister of electrical equipment industry between 20 July 1986 and 24 August 1991.[1] In the period 1986–1989 Anfimov was a deputy at the Supreme Soviet.[1]
In November 1991 Anfimov was appointed president of a state-owned corporation.[1] Then he was made a member of the coordinating council of the Russian Union of Mechanical Engineers.[1] He also served as a member of the advisory council of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.[1]
Anfimov died on 9 July 2019.[1]