Ivan Bolshakov
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Joseph Stalin
Ivan Bolshakov | |
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Иван Большаков | |
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| 6th Managing Director of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 17 December 1938 – 4 June 1939 | |
| Prime Minister | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Nikolay Petrunichev |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Khlomov |
| 2nd Chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography | |
| In office 4 June 1939 – 20 March 1946 | |
| Prime Minister | Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Semyon Dukelsky |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished Himself as Minister of Cinematography |
| 1st Minister of Cinematography of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 20 March 1946 – 15 March 1953 | |
| Prime Minister | Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Position established Himself as Chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 October 1902 Tula Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 19 March 1980 (aged 77) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery |
| Education | Georgy Plekhanov Moscow Institute of People's Economy Economic Institute of the Red Professors |
| Portfolio | Candidate of Art History (1950)[1] |
| Awards | Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of the Badge of Honour |
Ivan Grigoryevich Bolshakov (Russian: Ива́н Григо́рьевич Большако́в; 10 October 1902 – 19 March 1980) was a Soviet bureaucrat who was chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography and Minister of Cinematography of the Soviet Union (1939–1953).[2]
Born into a bourgeois family. From 1916 to 1922, he worked as a machine operator, and then as a timekeeper at the Tula Arms Factory.[1] In 1918, he joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
In 1928, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of People's Economy Named After Georgy Plekhanov, and in 1931 – the Economic Department of the Institute of Red Professors.
From 1924 to 1927, he worked as an instructor at the regional committee of metal workers' trade unions, Moscow. From 1927 to 1928, he was the Executive Secretary of the Central Bureau of the Proletarian Students of the All–Union Central Council of Trade Unions.
From 1931 to 1937, he worked as a consultant in the Office of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, from 1937 to 1938 – Deputy Administrator of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, from December 1938 to June 1939 – as Administrator of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union.[2] Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the 1st Convocation.[3]
Since June 1939 – Chairman of the Committee for Cinematography Under the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, since March 1946 – Minister of Cinematography of the Soviet Union.
From 1953 to 1954, he worked as First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union.[4]
From 1954 to 1959 – Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union.[2]
From 1960 to 1963 – Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.[5]
Buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Awards
- Two Orders of Lenin (April 14, 1944; March 6, 1966)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Two Orders of the Badge of Honour
