Oleg Shishkin (politician)

Oleg Shishkin (born June 26, 1934, in Sudogda, Ivanovo Industrial Region, now Vladimir Oblast) was a politician who served as Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.

Oleg Nikolaevich Shishkin
Oleg Shishkin at the International Leonardo Prize ceremony
Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR
In office July 17, 1989 – August 28, 1991 *(acting until November 26, 1991)
Premier	Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Vitaly Husseynovich Doguzhiev
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	June 26, 1934 Sudogda, Ivanovo Industrial Region (now Vladimir Oblast)
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1956-1991)
Education	Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (1957)
Awards

Biography

• 1952–1957: Student at the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications.
• 1957–1960: Junior Researcher at the Central Scientific Research Institute No. 22 of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.
• 1960–1962: Senior Engineer at NII-88 in Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast.
• 1962–1963: First Secretary of the Komsomol (VLKSM) in Kaliningrad, head of the industrial and transport department of the Komsomol in the Moscow Oblast.
• 1963–1965: Deputy Head of the NII-88 department.
• 1965–1966: Secretary of the Komsomol in Kaliningrad.
• 1966–1977: Director of the Institute of Measurement Technology of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
• 1977: Director and Chief Designer of the NII of Precision Instruments of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
• 1977–1981: General Director and Chief Designer of the Scientific-Production Association of Precision Instruments of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
• From 1981 in the apparatus of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR: Deputy Minister, and from 1987, First Deputy Minister.
• 1989–1991: Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.^[1]
• 1991–1994: President of Rosobshchemash.

He retired in 1994.

Awards and decorations

• Hero of Socialist Labor (1982)
• Orders of Lenin x 2 (1975, 1982)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966)
• Lenin Prize (1986)
• State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Yuri Gagarin in the field of space activities (2011) - for the development of the rocket and space industry, organization of space activities and the use of its results in the interests of science, ensuring socio-economic development and defense capability of the country.

Sources

• "State Power of the USSR. Supreme Authorities and Their Leaders. 1923–1991: Historical and Biographical Directory" / Compiled by V. I. Ivkin. – Moscow, 1999. – ISBN 5-8243-0014-3.