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Stalin’s oil minister guided Soviet Union’s economy
Nikolai Baibakov, who was Josef Stalin’s oil commissar and later guided the Soviet Union’s planned economy for two decades, has died. He was 97.
Baibakov, believed to have been the last living commissar to serve under Stalin, died of pneumonia Monday in Moscow, Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom said.
He also was thought to have been one of the last surviving witnesses of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s historic “secret speech” denouncing Stalin at the 1956 Soviet Communist Party congress.
Baibakov served as Russia’s deputy oil commissar during World War II. He was named Stalin’s oil commissioner in 1944 and fired in 1985 by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, whose economic and social reforms preceded the Soviet collapse.
In 1942, Baibakov recalled in a 1998 interview, Stalin summoned him and told him he would be shot if the advancing Nazi army seized oil wells in Soviet Azerbaijan.
Stalin warned him that he also would be shot if, after the war, the wells couldn’t be returned to production, he said in the interview with Petroleum Economist magazine.
“If you leave at least a ton of oil to Germans, we will shoot you,” he quoted Stalin as saying. “But if the Germans don’t get there, and we will be unable to restart t
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Nikolai Baibakov: Stalin's oil commissar
If ever there was a round peg in a Soviet round hole, it was Nikolai Baibakov, who served as commissar for the oil industry under Joseph Stalin and was later in charge of general economic planning in the Soviet Union. He was born in 1911 in Sabunchi, near the Caspian city of Baku, the original source of the oil that has sustained so much of the Russian economy for a century, the place where Alfred Nobel and the Yusupovs became even richer, and Stalin's own proving ground as an apprentice revolutionary in 1905.
As the son of an oil worker, with no social or political obstacles to overcome, Baibakov entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute and, after graduating as a mining engineer in 1931, went straight into the oil industry. Following two years of military service, in 1937 he was put in charge of an oilfield production department, soon became chief engineer, then general manager, and from then on his life "ran on oil", as the Russian saying goes.
The Great Patriotic War – i.e. the Second World War – tested Baibakov's technical and personal skills to the limit. In July 1942, having been absorbed into the central oil management of the Soviet Union and by now deputy oil minister, he was summoned by Stalin. Relating this freque
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- Anatoli F. Dobrynin, Ambassador turn the USA
- Mr. Ivanov, Head of say publicly Foreign Appointment Bank
- Leonid Zamyatin, Director weekend away TASS
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- Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Give your name to interpretation President schedule National Refuge Affairs
- Peter M. Flanigan, Bid to rendering President financial assistance International Budgetary Affairs
- Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Senior NSC Staff Member
- Winston Lord, Joint Assistant display Dr. Kissinger
- Ronald L. Chemist, Press Organize to interpretation President
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