Oleg Shishkin (politician) explained

Oleg Nikolaevich Shishkin
Office:	Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR
Predecessor:	Vitaly Husseynovich Doguzhiev
Successor:	Position abolished
Term Start:	July 17, 1989
Term End:	August 28, 1991 *(acting until November 26, 1991)
Premier:	Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov
Birth Date:	June 26, 1934
Birth Place:	Sudogda, Ivanovo Industrial Region (now Vladimir Oblast)
Nationality:	Soviet
Party:	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1956-1991)
Education:	Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (1957)

Oleg Shishkin (born June 26, 1934, in Sudogda, Ivanovo Industrial Region, now Vladimir Oblast) was a politician who served as Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.

Biography

1952–1957: Student at the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications.
1957–1960: Junior Researcher at the Central Scientific Research Institute No. 22 of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.
1960–1962: Senior Engineer at NII-88 in Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast.
1962–1963: First Secretary of the Komsomol (VLKSM) in Kaliningrad, head of the industrial and transport department of the Komsomol in the Moscow Oblast.
1963–1965: Deputy Head of the NII-88 department.
1965–1966: Secretary of the Komsomol in Kaliningrad.
1966–1977: Director of the Institute of Measurement Technology of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
1977: Director and Chief Designer of the NII of Precision Instruments of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
1977–1981: General Director and Chief Designer of the Scientific-Production Association of Precision Instruments of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
From 1981 in the apparatus of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR: Deputy Minister, and from 1987, First Deputy Minister.
1989–1991: Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.^[1]
1991–1994: President of Rosobshchemash.

He retired in 1994.

Awards and decorations

Hero of Socialist Labor (1982)
Orders of Lenin x 2 (1975, 1982)
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966)
Lenin Prize (1986)
State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Yuri Gagarin in the field of space activities (2011) - for the development of the rocket and space industry, organization of space activities and the use of its results in the interests of science, ensuring socio-economic development and defense capability of the country.

Sources

"State Power of the USSR. Supreme Authorities and Their Leaders. 1923–1991: Historical and Biographical Directory" / Compiled by V. I. Ivkin. – Moscow, 1999. – ISBN 5-8243-0014-3.

Notes and References

1991-01-15 . Soviet Union Military Affairs USSR MINISTRY OF DEFENSE: PERSONNEL DIRECTORY JANUARY 1991 . JPRS Report . FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE . 1991-01-15.