BATALIN, Yuriy Petrovich

BATALIN, Yuriy Petrovich [28.7.1927, Derevnya Kalkanovo of Tamyan­Kataysky Canton of the BASSR (Uchalinsky Raion of the RB) – 22.7.2013, Moscow], Statesman and Industrialist. Candidate of Engineering Science (1983), Full Professor (1990). Laureate of the Lenin’ Award (1980), USSR Council of Ministers Award (1974). Awarded with the Order of Lenin (1973, 1987), Order of Alexander Nevsky (2007), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1967, 1971, 1977), Order of the Badge of Honour (1957), Order of Friendship (1999). After graduating from the S.M.Kirov’ Urals Polytechnic Institute (Sverdlovsk, 1950), he worked at Bash­ uglerazrezstroy Trust, between 1958–65 – at  Bashneftepromstroy.  Since  1970  in Moscow:  Deputy  Minister  of  the  Gas Industry  of  the  USSR,  since  1972  1st Deputy Minister for the Construction of Enterprises of Oil and Gas Industry, since 1983 Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR for Labour and Social Issues, since 1985 Deputy Chairman of the Council of  Ministers  of  the  USSR  for  Major Construction,  simultaneously,  since  1986 Chairman of the Gosstroy of the USSR; since 1989 at the Institute of Advanced Training for the Builders of the Gosstroy of the USSR, since 1990 Vice­President of the Russian Academy of  Engineering, simultaneously, since 1995 Senior Advisor of the Dir. of OAO Stroytransgaz, since 2002 President of the Russian Union of Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction Workers. He was in charge of the construction of a combined heat power plant, a coal mine, a brown coal briquetting plant in Kumertau (1950–58), the development of Arlanskoye Oil Field, the construction of industrial facilities in the Republic, the construction of the town of Neftekamsk (1958–65).