BALANDIN, Vasily Petrovich

BALANDIN, Vasily Petrovich (28.12.1904, Losinoostrovskaya Station of Moscow Gub. – 28.3.1973, Moscow), Statesman and Industrialist. Hero of Socialist Labour (1945). Major General of the Engineering Aviation Service (1944). Awarded with the Order of Lenin (1936, 1943, 1945, 1945), the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1954, 1964, 1969), and the Order of the Red  Star  (1939).  Graduated  from  the Moscow  Institute  of  Railway Transport Engineers  (1930).  Since  1939,  he  was Deputy of the People’s Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR. Since 1941, he worked as Dir. of the Ufa Motor Plant No.384, since December – as Dir. of Plant No.26 (ref. ODK—Ufa Motor­Building Production Association). Since 1946, he was  Deputy  Minister  of  the  Aviation Industry of the USSR, between 1958–70 Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee  of   the   USSR.   Under   his leadership, the plants, evacuated to Ufa, were erected in a short time; a continuous flow production of aircraft engines for Yak­3, Yak­9, Pe­2 aircrafts was organized.