Nikolai baibakov biography of william

  • His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia.
  • Nikolai Baibakov was a key individual in the Soviet Union.
  • In this country, as soon as a man becomes an Academician then life becomes easy for him, because then he gets paid a large sum whether he works or not.

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    276. Memorandum of Conversation1

    Moscow, May 25, 1972, 2:10–3:50 p.m.

    PARTICIPANTS

    • Nikolai V. Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
    • Aleksei N. Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
    • Nikolai K. Baibakov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Chairman of the State Planning Commission
    • Andrei A. Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs
    • Nikolai S. Patolichev, Minister of Foreign Trade
    • Georgi M. Korniyenko, Chief of USA Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    • Anatoli F. Dobrynin, Ambassador to the USA
    • Mr. Ivanov, Chairman of the Foreign Trade Bank
    • Leonid Zamyatin, Director of TASS
    • Viktor M. Sukhodrev, Interpreter
    • Notetaker
    • The President
    • William P. Rogers, sekreterare of State
    • Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Assistant to the President for National säkerhet Affairs
    • Peter M. Flanigan, Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs
    • Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Senior NSC Staff Member
    • Winston Lord, Special Assistant to Dr

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      The speech Russia wants to forget


      It was a speech so shocking that even 50 years on, Nikolai Baibakov refuses point-blank to describe what he heard that day - a devastating attack on the man he worshipped above all others.

      Once the doors were locked Khrushchev spoke for four hours

      The retired Communist Party official, now 91, can reel off scores of statistics of industrial production and oil extraction in the 1950s.

      But he tries every stratagem to avoid recalling the cataclysmic event to which he is one of the very few surviving witnesses.

      It was the secret final session of the 20th party congress on 25 February 1956, at which the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev demolished the reputation of his predecessor, Joseph Stalin.

      Eventually, between gritted teeth, Baibakov concedes: "Maybe there were individual incidents of repression, but what Khrushchev denounced Stalin for, that never happened... Khrushchev just said those things to try and give himse

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      Nikolai Baibakov, 97, who served as Joseph Stalin's oil commissar and who later guided the Soviet Union's planned economy for two decades, has died, Russia's gas monopoly, Gazprom, said.

      Mr. Baibakov, who died of pneumonia Monday in Moscow, was believed to have been the last living commissar to serve under Stalin.

      In 1942, Stalin summoned Mr. Baibakov and told him he would be shot if the advancing Nazi army seized oil wells in Soviet Azerbaijan, he recalled in a 1998 interview with Petroleum Economist magazine. Stalin warned him that he would also be shot if, after the war, the wells could not be returned to production.

      Mr. Baibakov fulfilled both orders, surviving to launch the Soviet Union's postwar development of oil and gas deposits in Siberia.

      He pushed for huge investment in the industry that would become the backbone of the Soviet Union's planned economy and the foundation of post-Soviet Russia's booming economy.

      - AP

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