Nikolai Voznesensky

Nikolai Voznesensky
Nikolai Voznesensky;
Николай Вознесенский
	Voznesensky in 1938
Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union
	In office; 8 December 1942 – 5 March 1949
Premier	Joseph Stalin
Preceded by	Maksim Saburov
Succeeded by	Maksim Saburov
	In office; 19 January 1938 – 10 March 1941
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by	Valery Mezhlauk
Succeeded by	Maksim Saburov
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
	In office; 10 March 1941 – 15 March 1946
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov; Joseph Stalin
Preceded by	Valerian Kuybyshev
Succeeded by	Vyacheslav Molotov
Full member of the 18th Politburo
	In office; 26 February 1947 – 7 March 1949
Candidate member of the 18th Politburo
	In office; 21 February 1941 – 26 February 1947
Personal details
Born	1 December [O.S. 18 November] 1903; Tula Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1 October 1950 (aged 46); Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet
Political party	Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1919–1949)
Relations	Alexander Voznesensky (brother)

Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Вознесе́нский, 1 December [O.S. 18 November] 1903 – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet politician and economic planner who oversaw the running of Gosplan (the USSR's State Planning Committee) during the German–Soviet War of 1941–1945. A protégé of Andrei Zhdanov, Voznesensky was appointed Deputy Premier in May 1940.^[1] He became directly involved in the recovery of production associated with the evacuation of industry eastwards after the start of the war. His 1947 work The Economy of the USSR during World War II^[2] (Russian: Военная экономика СССР в период Отечественной войны, lit. 'The war economy of the USSR in the time of the Patriotic War') records those years.

Following the war, Voznesensky was persecuted during the 1949–1950 Leningrad affair. In a secret trial, he was found guilty of treason, sentenced to death and executed immediately. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union rehabilitated him in 1954.^[3]

Voznesensky was a close associate of Alexei Kosygin^[4] and of Mikhail Rodionov.^[5]

^ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2003, p.310. ISBN 1-4000-4230-5
^ Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1948.
^ "Вознесенский Николай Алексеевич, Биографический указатель". www.hrono.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-05-05. Реабилитирован 30 апреля 1954 г. военной коллегией Верховного суда СССР, 26 февраля 1988 г. КПК при ЦК КПСС подтверждено членство в партии.
^ "No". Radio Liberty Research Bulletin (40–53). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: 16. 1980. Retrieved 27 June 2023. Thousands perished in the purge that followed, including such eminent figures as Nikolai Voznesensky, the chairman of the State Planning Commission and a close associate of Kosygin.
^ "Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2018.

[:0-1] Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2003, p.310. ISBN 1-4000-4230-5

[2] Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1948.

[hrono_ru-3] "Вознесенский Николай Алексеевич, Биографический указатель". www.hrono.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-05-05. Реабилитирован 30 апреля 1954 г. военной коллегией Верховного суда СССР, 26 февраля 1988 г. КПК при ЦК КПСС подтверждено членство в партии.

[4] "No". Radio Liberty Research Bulletin (40–53). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: 16. 1980. Retrieved 27 June 2023. Thousands perished in the purge that followed, including such eminent figures as Nikolai Voznesensky, the chairman of the State Planning Commission and a close associate of Kosygin.

[5] "Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2018.

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