Oleg Baklanov

Oleg Baklanov
Олег Бакланов
Baklanov in 2018
Minister of General Machine Building
In office
8 April 1983 – 25 March 1988
PremierNikolai Tikhonov, Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded bySergey Afanasyev
Succeeded byVitaly Doguzhiyev
Full member of the 28th Politburo
In office
14 July 1990 – 29 August 1991
Secretary of the 28th Central Committee
In office
18 February 1988 – 25 April 1991
Member of the 27th Secretariat
In office
18 February 1988 – 14 July 1990
Personal details
Born(1932-03-17)17 March 1932
Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Died28 July 2021(2021-07-28) (aged 89)
Moscow, Russia
Resting placeFederal Military Memorial Cemetery
NationalitySoviet
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
SpouseLilia Fedorovna Baklanova
Alma materMIREA – Russian Technological University

Oleg Dmitriyevich Baklanov (Russian: Олег Дмитриевич Бакланов, Ukrainian: Олег Дмитрович Бакланов; 17 March 1932 – 28 July 2021[1]) was a Soviet politician, and high functionary in government and industry. He was a scientist and businessman. As Minister of General Machine Building, he was responsible for the Soviet space industry during the 1980s.

Biography

Baklanov worked in an instrument engineering factory in Kharkov, Soviet Ukraine, and later became chief of the factory. He was appointed Engineering Industry Minister of the Soviet Union in 1983 and was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet from 1981 to 1991.

Baklanov was a secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from February 1988 to April 1991[2][3] and was responsible for defense issues in this role. He was a member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.[4]

From March until his arrest on August 23, 1991, he was the First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Council under the President of the Soviet Union[3][5] (he was formally dismissed from office a month after his arrest[6]).

Baklanov was brutally beaten and arrested by the security police for his role in the 1991 coup d'état attempt.[7] He was released on recognizance not to leave in January 1993[8] and amnestied by the State Duma in 1994.[9] After his release, he became the chairman of the board of governors at the Rosobshemash company.[10]

Death

Baklanov died on 28 July 2021, and was buried in the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery on 30 July.[11] Prior to his death he was the last surviving member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency.

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Honours and awards

References

  1. ^ Умер экс-руководитель ракетно-космической отрасли СССР Олег Бакланов (in Russian)
  2. ^ Бакланов Олег Дмитриевич
  3. ^ a b Бакланов Олег Дмитриевич (in Russian)
  4. ^ Baklanov's biography (in Russian)
  5. ^ Бакланов Олег Дмитриевич
  6. ^ Указ Президента СССР от 01.10.1991 № УП-2634 (in Russian)
  7. ^ Олег Бакланов: Советская власть погибла из-за своей гуманности (in Russian)
  8. ^ Ъ-Газета — Пресс-конференция по делу ГКЧП (in Russian)
  9. ^ Хроника путча. Часть V (in Russian)
  10. ^ "Who was who in the 1991 coup | Photo galleries | RIA Novosti". en.ria.ru. Archived from the original on 2014-07-31.
  11. ^ "В Мытищах похоронили куратора проекта "Буран" Бакланова" [Curator of the Buran project Baklanov buried in Mytishchi] (in Russian). Izvestia. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2023.