Oleg Baklanov

Soviet politician, scientist, and businessman (1932–2021)

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Олег Бакланов

Baklanov in 2018

Minister of General Machine BuildingIn office
8 April 1983 – 25 March 1988PremierNikolai Tikhonov, Nikolai RyzhkovPreceded bySergey AfanasyevSucceeded byVitaly DoguzhiyevFull member of the 28th PolitburoIn office
14 July 1990 – 29 August 1991Secretary of the 28th Central CommitteeIn office
18 February 1988 – 25 April 1991Member of the 27th SecretariatIn office
18 February 1988 – 14 July 1990 Personal detailsBorn(1932-03-17)17 March 1932
Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Kharkiv, Ukraine)Died28 July 2021(2021-07-28) (aged 89)
Moscow, RussiaResting placeFederal Military Memorial CemeteryNationalitySovietPolitical partyCommunist Party of the Soviet UnionSpouseLilia Fedorovna BaklanovaAlma materMIREA – Russian Technological University

Oleg Dmitriyevich Baklanov (Ukrainian & Russian: Олег Дмитриевич Бакланов; 17 March 1932 – 28 July 2021^[1]) was a Soviet politician, and high functionary in government and industry. He was a scientist and businessman. As Minister of General Machine Building, he was responsible for the Soviet space industry during the 1980s.

Biography

Baklanov worked in an instrument engineering factory in Kharkov, Soviet Ukraine, and later became chief of the factory. He was appointed Engineering Industry Minister of the Soviet Union in 1983 and was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet from 1981 to 1991.

Baklanov was a secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from February 1988 to April 1991^[2]^[3] and was responsible for defense issues in this role. He was a member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.^[4]

From March until his arrest on August 23, 1991, he was the First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Council under the President of the Soviet Union^[3]^[5] (he was formally dismissed from office a month after his arrest^[6]).

Baklanov was brutally beaten and arrested by the security police for his role in the 1991 coup d'état attempt.^[7] He was released on recognizance not to leave in January 1993^[8] and amnestied by the State Duma in 1994.^[9] After his release, he became the chairman of the board of governors at the Rosobshemash company.^[10]

Death

Baklanov died on 28 July 2021, and was buried in the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery on 30 July.^[11] Prior to his death he was the last surviving member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency.

External links

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Honours and awards

Hero of Socialist Labour (1976)
Order of Lenin (1976)
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice
Order of the Badge of Honour (1960)
Lenin Prize (1982)
Chairman of the Society of Friendship and cooperation between the peoples of Ukraine and Russia
Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Tsiolkovsky
International Academy of Information Technology
Academician of the Academy of Security, Defence and Law Enforcement.

References

^ Умер экс-руководитель ракетно-космической отрасли СССР Олег Бакланов (in Russian)
^ Бакланов Олег Дмитриевич
^ ^a ^b Бакланов Олег Дмитриевич (in Russian)
^ Baklanov's biography (in Russian)
^ Бакланов Олег Дмитриевич
^ Указ Президента СССР от 01.10.1991 № УП-2634 (in Russian)
^ Олег Бакланов: Советская власть погибла из-за своей гуманности (in Russian)
^ Ъ-Газета — Пресс-конференция по делу ГКЧП (in Russian)
^ Хроника путча. Часть V (in Russian)
^ "Who was who in the 1991 coup | Photo galleries | RIA Novosti". en.ria.ru. Archived from the original on 2014-07-31.
^ "В Мытищах похоронили куратора проекта "Буран" Бакланова" [Curator of the Buran project Baklanov buried in Mytishchi] (in Russian). Izvestia. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2023.