Maksim Saburov

Maxim Sacharowitsch Saburoff (Russian Максим Захарович Сабуров; born February 19, 1900 in Druschkiwka, Ukraine, † March 24, 1977 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

Biography

Ascent to the chairman of Gosplan

Saburoff 1920 was a member of the Communist Party of Russia, later the Soviet Communist Party. He attended from 1923 to 1926 the Sverdlov Party School and studied from 1928 to 1933 at the Baumann Institute of Mechanics, Moscow. He became an engineer and economist.

He worked in various institutions as party secretary: Between 1921-1926 he was party secretary of the Komsomol, 1926-1928 then secretary in Rajon Kostjantyniwka in the Donetsk Oblast. After graduation, he was head of the Baumann Institute of Technology and from 1933 Head of a technical planning offices of a machine factory in Morkau and soon after head of the operating system Novokramatorsk. In 1937, he became Minister of the heavy machinery in the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

For the first time he was known in 1938 as Vice Chairman of the Committee for State Planning - briefly called Gosplan. Chairman of Gosplan was 1938-1949 Nikolai Voznesensky. During the Second World War, he played a major role in the Gosplan and as Chairman of the Economic Council of the defense industry for the State Committee of Defense of the USSR.

In the first post-war period, he was Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD ) (top bosses were then Marshal Zhukov and Marshal Sokolovsky ).

In 1946 he was again Deputy Chairman of Gosplan. From March 5, 1949 to February 28, 1955, he was chairman of Gosplan, after Voznesensky had been liquidated by Josef Stalin. At the same time Saburoff 1949 Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in the Cabinets of Stalin and Georgi Malenkov.

In the center of power

In 1952 he became a member of the Central Committee and he ascended to the highest political body of the USSR, he became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) ( former name: Bureau ), in the period from 16 October 1952 to June 29, 1957.

On February 28, 1955, he moved in the Council of Ministers of the USSR First Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet of Bulganin, an office which he held until July 5, 1957. Between 1953 to 1957 he was Minister for mechanical engineering.

Unsuccessful coup against Khrushchev

1957 tried the Politburo members and Stalinists Saburoff, Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich, Pervukhin, Bulganin, Voroshilov and the First Secretary of the Central Committee (CC ) of the CPSU, Nikita Khrushchev replace. With the help of the Central Committee quickly convened, however, succeeded Khrushchev to prevent this. Saburoff lost his posts in the Politburo and government, and in 1961 also his seat in the Central Committee. From 1958 until his retirement in 1966 he held the office of a marketing director.