Igor Belousov

Igor Belousov (1928–2005) was a Russian statesman who held several posts in the Soviet era and after it. He was the Soviet minister of the shipbuilding industry and deputy premier in the 1980s.

Igor Belousov
Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
In office
February 1988 – December 1990
PremierNikolai Ryzhkov
Minister of the Shipbuilding Industry
In office
January 1984 – February 1988
Premier
Preceded byMikhail Yegorov
Succeeded byIgor Koksanov
Personal details
Born
Igor Sergeevich Belousov

(1928-01-15)15 January 1928
Leningrad, Soviet Union
Died10 February 2005(2005-02-10) (aged 77)
Moscow, Russia
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
NationalityRussian
Political partyCommunist Party
SpouseVeronika Panteleimonovna Belousova
Alma materLeningrad Shipbuilding Institute

Early life and education

Belousov was born in Leningrad on 15 January 1928.[1] In 1952 he graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute receiving a degree in ship engineering.[2]

Career

From 1952 Belousov worked at the Baltic Shipyard S. Ordzhonikidze in Leningrad in different capacities.[1] Then he became the secretary of its Komsomol committee and its chief engineer.[2] He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1955.[1] From 1967 he worked as the chief engineer of the Admiralty Plant in Leningrad.[1] In 1976 he was named the first deputy minister of the shipbuilding industry which he held until 1984.[1][3] Between 1984 and 1989 Belousov served as a deputy at the Supreme Soviet and in the period 1986–1990 he was a member of the central committee of the Communist Party and.[1]

In January 1984 Belousov was appointed minister of the shipbuilding industry, replacing Mikhail Yegorov in the post.[1][3] Belousov's tenure ended in February 1988 when he was replaced by Igor Koksanov in the post.[3] Between February 1988 and December 1990 Belousov served as the deputy chairman of the council of ministers of the Soviet Union and the chairman of the state military industrial commission.[1][4] In the period 2000–2005 he was the chief adviser to Rosoboronexport, a state agency for the exports and imports of defense-related products, technologies and services.[1]

Personal life and death

Belousov married Veronika Panteleimonovna Belousova (1928–2008).[1] He died in Moscow on 10 February 2005 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, where his wife would also be buried in 2008.[1]

Awards

Belousov was the recipient of the following awards: Lenin Prize (three times), State Prize of the Soviet Union (1969), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (twice), Order of the Badge of Honour (twice) and the Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).[1]

References
  1. "Белоусов Игорь Сергеевич (1928–2005)" (in Russian). Novodevichiynecropol. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  2. "Soviet Union: Political Affairs" (PDF). JPRS: 5. 12 December 1989. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 March 2022.
  3. Peter Almquist (1990). Red Forge. Soviet Military Industry Since 1965. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 152. doi:10.7312/almq92558. ISBN 9780231925587.
  4. Mikhail Tsypkin (1992). "New weapons and the attempts at technical change". In Derek Leebaert; Timothy Dickinson (eds.). Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-521-40769-4.
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