Ivan Senin

Ivan Senin was born in 1903, into a miner's family in Donbas. In 1917 he graduated from school in Petrovsky, and started working at the mine No. 19 at Rutchenkovo, where for four years he was a lamp carrier, and horse driver. In 1921, he was elected the secretary of Rutchenkovo Komsomol committee. In autumn 1922, Senin began studying at Donetsk technical school named after Artem. After the workers' school Ivan Senin graduated from Polytechnic Institute in Kyiv in 1930, then he entered postgraduate school. In 1931 he was appointed the Head engineer of the Kyiv factory "Krasny Humovyk" and in 1932 he worked as Director of "Ukrkabel" plant. In 1938 Ivan Senin was appointed Deputy People's Commissar of USSR consumer industry, and in a year he became People's Commissar.

In 1949–1965 years he was the member of the Politburo, later - member of Presidium of the Central Committee of Ukrainian TsK VKP(b), in 1956–1961 years - candidate member to the Communist Party Central Committee, in 1961–1966 years - member of the Communist Party Central Committee, Deputy of Supreme Soviet of Ukrainian SSR (1947–1967) and of Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1946–1966). In the period of 1953-1965 Ivan Senin was appointed the First Deputy Head of Government (in 1957-1959 - the Head of Gosplan of USSR).[1]

As a member of USSR delegation, in 1945 Ivan Senin participated in the UN conference in San Francisco, in 1947 in Paris on behalf of USSR Government he signed peace treaties with Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.

Ivan Senin died in 1981. He was buried in Kyiv, at Baikove Cemetery.

• Order of Lenin (4 times)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour

• The information in this article is based on that in its Ukrainian equivalent.

• Ivan Senin short bio at Electronic Library - Books and People
• Reference guide on the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991