Khlamov, Grigory Sergeyevich (December 6 [19], 1903, selo of Koshelevo, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — November 29, 1968, Moscow) was a Soviet statesman and industrial production manager, a native of the Nizhny Novgorod land. He served as director of the Gorky Automobile Plant from 1948 to 1950, Minister of the Automotive and Tractor Industry of the USSR from 1950 to 1953, and was a laureate of the Stalin Prize.[2][3]

Origins and education

He was born into a peasant family in the selo (a larger village) of Koshelevo — according to different sources, now part of either the Vachsky or the Koverninsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[3][4] From 1918 he worked as a carter, an oiler, and a teacher. From 1926 to 1928 he headed the Murom uyezd department of public education in Vladimir Governorate.[3] In 1926 he joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).[2] In 1932 he graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow Automotive and Tractor Institute.[3]

Work at GAZ and the war years

From 1932 Khlamov worked at the Gorky Automobile Plant, rising from foreman and senior technologist to deputy chief engineer and chief engineer of the plant's expansion directorate.[3] In 1940–1941 he held the post of chief engineer of Glavspetsmash at the USSR People's Commissariat of Medium Machine Building.[2] In 1941–1943 he was chief engineer and deputy director of the KIM Automobile Plant in Moscow.[3] From 1943 to 1946 he headed the Stalin Ural Automobile Plant in Miass.[3]

In 1946–1948, he served as Deputy Minister of the Automotive Industry of the USSR.[3] From September 2, 1948, to April 18, 1950, he was director of the V. M. Molotov Gorky Automobile Plant.[1][2]

Ministerial Career

From April 1950, Khlamov held the post of Minister of the Automotive and Tractor Industry of the USSR. After the reorganization of the ministries in March 1953, he became deputy Minister of Machine Building of the USSR, and in 1954–1955 he was First Deputy Minister of the Radio Engineering Industry of the USSR.[2] In 1955–1957, he was Minister of Tractor and Agricultural Machine Building of the USSR, and in 1957–1960 he was head of the Department of Automotive, Tractor, and Agricultural Machine Building of the USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan) with the rank of USSR minister.[3] From 1960 until the end of his life, he headed the Main Directorate of State Material Reserves under the USSR Council of Ministers.[3]

Awards and Recognition

He was a laureate of the Stalin Prize for the design and technology, organization of production, and mastery of mass production of the "Pobeda" (GAZ-M-20) passenger car.[3] He was awarded two Orders of Lenin and two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor.[3][4] In 1966, he was named an honorary citizen of the city of Stara Zagora (Bulgaria).[3] He is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.[3]

Links

Sources

  1. lib-avt.ru — Directors of the Gorky Automobile Plant — Centralized Library System of the Avtozavodsky District of the City of Nizhny Novgorod (archive)
  2. lib-avt.ru — Grigory Sergeyevich Khlamov — Centralized Library System of the Avtozavodsky District of the City of Nizhny Novgorod (archive)
  3. names52.ru — Grigory Sergeyevich Khlamov (archive)
  4. chel-portal.ru — Grigory Sergeyevich Khlamov (archive)