Khristoradnov Yuri Nikolayevich (November 21, 1929, village of Timokhanovo, Tutayevsky District, Yaroslavl Region — October 16, 2018, Moscow) was a Soviet party and state figure, First Secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU from 1974 to 1988, and an Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[4]
From the Factory to the Regional Committee
Khristoradnov was born into a peasant family. After graduating from the Yaroslavl Automotive Mechanics Technical School in 1949, he joined the Gorky Automobile Plant, where he successively held the positions of foreman, senior foreman, assistant head of the foundry shop, section head, and deputy head of the foundry shop.[1] Alongside his work at the plant, he studied by correspondence: in 1959 he graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Finance and Economics.[1] He joined the Communist Party in 1951.[1]
From 1960 he was secretary of the party bureau of the plant's foundry building; from 1962 he was a secretary, and from 1963 First Secretary, of the Avtozavodsky District Committee of the CPSU in Gorky. From 1966 he was Second Secretary of the Gorky City Committee of the CPSU; according to the source names52.ru, he became First Secretary of the city committee in 1968, whereas "Open Text" places this promotion in 1974.[1][4] On May 7, 1974, Khristoradnov was elected First Secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU and held this post until June 16, 1988.[1]
Leadership of the Region
Over fourteen years at the head of the Region, the residential microdistricts of Kuznechikha, Pechery, and Scherbinki were built in Gorky, along with the sixth and seventh Sormovo microdistricts, the Northern Microdistrict, Lenin Avenue, and the Southern Highway; construction of the Metro began. According to Governor Gleb Nikitin, during this period industry and agriculture received a powerful impetus for development, cultural, educational, and medical facilities were renovated, and the network of children's institutions expanded.[2][3]
Khristoradnov was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the 8th convocation (1971–1974) and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 9th–11th convocations (1974–1989), and served on the Planning and Budget Commission of the Soviet of the Union.[1][4] From 1976 to 1990 he was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU; he was a delegate to the 25th (1976), 26th (1981), and 27th (1986) Congresses of the CPSU.[4]
After resigning as First Secretary of the Regional Committee, from May 24, 1988, to May 25, 1989, he held the post of Chairman of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and then, until early 1991, Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.[1][4] From January 1991 he was a personal pensioner of Union significance.[1]
Awards and honors
Khristoradnov was awarded two Orders of Lenin (1975, 1979), the Order of the October Revolution (1971), the Order of the Badge of Honor (1966), and medals.[4] In 1979 he was granted the title of Honored Automobile Plant Worker. On January 27, 2005, he received the title of Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region, and during the same period he worked as an adviser to the Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[4][1][4]
Memory
In his last years, Khristoradnov was a member of the board of the regional public organization "Nizhny Novgorod Community in the Capital" and a veteran of the Nizhny Novgorod Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.[2] He died on October 16, 2018, in Moscow; he was buried at the Old Avtozavodskoye Cemetery in Nizhny Novgorod.[4] A civil memorial service was held on October 19, 2018, at the Palace of Culture of the Automobile Plant (DK GAZ).[2]
On December 2, 2021, a memorial plaque honoring three first secretaries of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU — Katushev, Maslennikov, and Khristoradnov — was unveiled on House No. 1 on Minin Street in Nizhny Novgorod, the "obkom" building where the Region's top officials lived. The initiative for the installation came from the board of the "Nizhny Novgorod Community in the Capital."[4]
Sources
- opentextnn.ru — 7.5.1974—16.6.1988 — KHRISTORADNOV Yuri Nikolayevich — OPEN TEXT (archive)
- NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" — Yuri Khristoradnov, First Secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU, died in his 89th year after a severe illness. Nizhny Novgorod News (archive)
- Vremya N — Yuri Nikolayevich Khristoradnov died in his 89th year
- names52.ru — Khristoradnov Yuri Nikolayevich (archive)