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Pavel Pavlovich Lobanov (; January 15, 1902 – August 13, 1984) was a Soviet bureaucrat and academician. He was a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1952 and a candidate member of the CPSU from 1956 to 1961.
Biography
Lobanov was born into a peasant family in Moscow Governorate.
He graduated from the Agronomic Faculty of the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1925. *1925 – agronomist of the Shakhovskaya Section of the Volokolamsky Uyezd of the Moscow Region; *1925–1926 – served in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army; *1926–1927 – agronomist for grain inspection of the elevator of the Moscow–Kazan railway; *1927–1930 – agronomist of the Kostroma District and district land administration; *1930–1931 – technical director of the Soviet Farm "Ilyich's Precepts", Ivanovo Oblast; *1931–1936 – postgraduate student at the All–Union Scientific Research Institute of Soviet Farms; *1936–1937 – head of the department of the Moscow Institute of Land Management; *1937 – Director of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute; *1937–1938 – Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; *1938 – People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; *1938–1946 – People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Farms of the Soviet Union; *1946–1953 – Deputy, 1st Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Soviet Union; *1953 – 1st Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Soviet Union; *1953–1955 – First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (since 1953 – Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic); *1955–1956 – Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union; *1956–1961 – President of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (until 1962); *1961–1965 – Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union; *1965–1978 – President of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
From 1978, he was a personal pensioner. He died in 1984 and is buried in the city of Dmitrov.
Awards
*Hero of Socialist Labour; *Two Orders of Lenin; *Order of the October Revolution; *Order of the Red Banner of Labour; *Order of Friendship of Peoples.
Sources
* *State Power of the Soviet Union. The Highest Authorities And Management And Their Leaders. 1923–1991. Historical and Biographical Reference Book / Compiled by Vladimir Ivkin. Moscow, 1999 –
External links
* *Lobanov Pavel Pavlovich – article from the Biographical Encyclopedia of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences Named After Lenin *Biography in the Handbook of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union