Pavel Pavlovich Lobanov (Russian: Павел Павлович Лобанов; January 15, 1902 – August 13, 1984) was a Soviet statesman and economic leader. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of 4, 5, 7–9 convocations. Member of the Central Auditing Commission of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolshevikss) (1939–1952), candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1956–1961). Academician of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1948), Doctor of Economics (1967). Hero of Socialist Labour (1971).

Pavel Lobanov
Павел Лобанов
Lobanov in 1959
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office
February 28, 1955 – April 9, 1956
Prime MinisterNikolay Bulganin
5th People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Farms of the Soviet Union
In office
December 10, 1938 – March 15, 1946
Prime MinisterVyacheslav Molotov
Joseph Stalin
Preceded byTikhon Yurkin
Succeeded byOffice abolished
6th Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
In office
July 14, 1956 – March 18, 1962
Preceded byAlexander Volkov
Succeeded byIvan Spiridonov
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office
1953–1955
Prime MinisterAlexander Puzanov
1st Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office
December 20, 1953 – March 26, 1955
Prime MinisterAlexander Puzanov
Preceded byHimself as Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Succeeded byPeter Morozov
2nd Minister of Agriculture and Procurement of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office
August 15, 1953 – December 20, 1953
Prime MinisterAlexander Puzanov
Preceded byAlexander Fedin
Succeeded byOffice abolished
9th People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office
1938 – December 1938
Preceded byNikolay Lisitsyn
Succeeded byAlexey Sukhov
Personal details
Born
Pavel Pavlovich Lobanov

January 15, 1902
Staro, Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedAugust 13, 1984 (aged 82)
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Political partyAll–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1927
EducationMoscow Agricultural Academy Named After Kliment Timiryazev (1925)
PortfolioDoctor of Economics, Academician of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1948)
AwardsHero of Socialist Labour
Order of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Medal "For Labour Valour"

Biography

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Lobanov was born into a peasant family. He graduated from the Agronomic Faculty of the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1925.

  • 1925 – agronomist of the Shakhovsky 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

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Sources

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  • Лобанов Павел Павлович (Lobanov Pavel Pavlovich) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) – via Great Scientific Library
  • 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 – ISBN 5-8243-0014-3
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Preceded by President of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences
April 10, 1956 – August 8, 1961
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Mikhail Olshansky
President of the Lenin All–Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences
February 10, 1965 – August 1, 1978
Succeeded by
Pyotr Vavilov