Maslennikov Nikolay Ivanovich (1921–?) was a Soviet party and state figure, First Secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU from 18 April 1968 to 7 May 1974, and a native of Nizhny Novgorod.[1]
Biography and career before the Regional Committee
He was born in 1921 in Nizhny Novgorod into a working-class family. After finishing secondary school in 1939, he entered the Gorky Industrial Institute. During the Great Patriotic War he worked as a fitter-assembler at the aircraft plant in Gorky; in 1941 he volunteered for the Red Army and studied at the Leningrad Air Force Academy, but in 1943 he was demobilized due to illness. In 1944–1945 he worked as a cultural organizer at the Staraya Pustyn sanatorium in Gorky Region. In 1948 he graduated from the automotive and tractor faculty of the Gorky Industrial Institute.[1]
From 1948 to 1961 he worked at the Krasnaya Etna plant in Gorky, successively holding the posts of senior process engineer, shop manager, deputy head of a production building, chief mechanic, and secretary of the plant's party committee. He joined the CPSU in 1951. In 1961 he moved into party work: he was Second Secretary, and from 1965 First Secretary, of the Gorky City Party Committee, and head of a department of the Regional Committee.[1][2]
Leadership of Gorky Region
As First Secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU, Maslennikov succeeded Konstantin Katushev, who had been transferred to Moscow. Maslennikov died on 28 October 2013 and was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.[4] Maslennikov was an honorary citizen of Bolsheboldinsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Region.[4] He led the Region for six years, from April 1968 to May 1974. A number of major economic transformations in the Region are associated with Maslennikov's name: the modernization of production in Dzerzhinsk, Kstovo, and Vyksa, the launch of the new GAZ-24 Volga car model, the expansion of the construction industry and the elimination of barracks housing, as well as the start of construction of the Nizhny Novgorod metro.[4] After his dismissal from the post of First Secretary, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR and Chairman of the RSFSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan). He held these positions from 1974 to 1989.[4][1]
He was a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1970 and a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th convocations. He was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1971.[1]
Awards and commemoration
Maslennikov was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and a number of medals.[1][2]
On 2 December 2021, a memorial plaque was unveiled on House No. 1 on Minin Street in Nizhny Novgorod — the "obkom" house, where the Region's top officials lived — in honor of three First Secretaries of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU: Katushev, Maslennikov, and Khristoradnov. The initiative for installing the plaque came from the board of the regional public organization "Nizhny Novgorod Community in the Capital"; all three were promoted from the regional post to positions in Moscow.[3][2]
Sources
- names52.ru — Maslennikov died on 28 October 2013; he spent his last years in Moscow and was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.
- opentextnn.ru — April 1968 – May 1974 Maslennikov Nikolay Ivanovich — OPEN TEXT (archive)
- NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" — Proposal to Commemorate Six Political Figures, Doctors, and Teachers in Nizhny Novgorod
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — First Forever: Nizhny Novgorod to Commemorate Leaders of the Region — A memorial plaque in honor of the leaders of Gorky Region will be installed in Nizhny Novgorod on November 30… (archive)