Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

Gleb Maximilianowitsch Krzhizhanovsky (Russian Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский; * 12 Januarjul / January 24 1872greg in Samara, .. † March 31, 1959 in Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician.

Life

After serving his sentence, he worked as locks and fitter. In 1902 he directed in his hometown of Samara an office of the Social Democratic revolutionary newspaper Iskra. From 1903 to 1905 he lived in Kiev, where he was employed in a railway station. During the Revolution of 1905 he appeared in St. Petersburg, where he was one of the head of the laboratory, which produced bombs. After the suppression of the revolution arrested and exiled again. Since 1910 he lived in Moscow, where he was employed as an engineer with the city's electricity plants.

After the October Revolution he took over the management of various economic organizations, first in Moscow, then in all of Soviet Russia. Since January 1920, he was the one responsible for the development and implementation of GOELRO plan for the electrification and the associated modernization of the country. From 1921 to 1923 and from 1925 to 1930 was chairman of Gosplan Krzhizhanovsky. In this role, he was instrumental in the development of the First Five-Year Plan and the associated industrialization of the Soviet economy. He was considered one of the fathers of the reconstruction policy. From 1923 to 1926 he was rector of the Moscow State Institute of Mechanics, Moscow. From 1930 to 1932 he was chairman of the State Committee for Energy Policy Glawenergo. Then he disappeared from politics and held only minor positions within the Soviet economic management. At the same time he concentrated more and more on scientific activity. From 1929 to 1939 he was vice-president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where he remained for several years. Since 1930 and until his death in 1959 he was the head and founder of the Energetic Institute of the Academy of Sciences, which developed into the research of scientific problems of power engineering and electrification and since the mid- 1930s in his name.

Krzhizhanovsky was from 1924 to 1939 member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and from 1937 to 1945 deputy of the Supreme Soviet. From 1925 to 1931 he served on the editorial board of the first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

In 1957 he was awarded in recognition of his " service to the October Revolution " of religious hero of socialist labor. After his death, the urn was buried with his remains at the Kremlin wall.

Krzhizhanovsky was married to Zinaida Newsorowa since 1899. Since 1968, for years inhabited by him and his family apartment in Moscow was made to the museum.

Works (selection)

• Osnownye sadatschi elektrifikazii Rossii ( German: Main problems of the electrification of Russia). Moscow, 1920.
• Veliky Lenin ( German: The great Lenin). Moscow, 1968.