Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
Глеб Кржижановский
Krzhizhanovsky in 1904
Chairman of the State Planning Committee
In office
February 1921 – 11 December 1923
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byAlexander Tsiurupa
In office
18 November 1925 – 10 November 1930
PremierAlexei Rykov
Preceded byAlexander Tsiurupa
Succeeded byValerian Kuybyshev
Personal details
Born(1872-01-24)24 January 1872
Samara, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire
Died31 March 1959(1959-03-31) (aged 87)
Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis
Political partyRussian Social Democratic Labor Party (1898–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1959)
Alma materSaint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
OccupationScientist, translator, writer
AwardsHero of Socialist Labour

Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky (Russian: Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский; 24 January [O.S. 12 January] 1872 – 31 March 1959) was a Soviet scientist, statesman, revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and state figure as well as a geographer and writer.[1][2]

Born to the family of a nobleman of Polish descent (Polish surname: Krzyżanowski), he became the longtime chairman of the Gosplan and director of the GOELRO, an Academician of Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1957).

  1. ^ Krzhizhanovsky, Gleb Maximilianovich. "V. I. Lenin 33 To: G. M. KRZHIZHANOVSKY". Marxist.Org. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Prib was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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