Afanasyev Sergey Aleksandrovich (Russian: Афана́сьев Серге́й Алекса́ндрович) (August 30, 1918 – May 13, 2001) was a prominent Soviet engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine-Building.
Sergey Afanasyev was born in the city of Klin in the Moscow region. He graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (s...
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Afanasyev Sergey Aleksandrovich (Russian: Афана́сьев Серге́й Алекса́ндрович) (August 30, 1918 – May 13, 2001) was a prominent Soviet engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine-Building.
Sergey Afanasyev was born in the city of Klin in the Moscow region. He graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (since 1943).
In the late 1950s, Sergey Afanasyev worked in top management positions in Leningrad, and in the early 1960s in Moscow as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
After his appointment in March 1965 as Head of the newly created Ministry of General Machine-Building, a post he occupied until 1983, Sergey Afanasyev had to build up the new Ministry from ground zero, uniting numerous defence plants, scientific labs, engineering facilities and famous constructors of space and...
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