A prominent Soviet and Russian statesman gained first fame during the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in the Armenian city of Spitak. Oleg Ivanovich Lobov in the most difficult years of the "Chechen conflict" was the secretary of the Security Council and the representative of the president in the Chechen Republic. He made a great contribution to the formation of Russian statehood, having worked for ten years in the government of the country.
The beginning of the biography
Oleg Ivanovich Lobov was born in a family of employees on September 7, 1937 in the city of Kiev. My father worked as the chief engineer of a local dairy plant. After graduating from high school, the young man went to Rostov-on-Don, where he entered the Institute of Railway Engineers
By distribution, he was sent to Sverdlovsk, where he began working as an engineer at the Uralgiprokhim design institute. A competent specialist was noticed and gradually began to entrust more and more responsible tasks and to promote in the post. In 1963, he was appointed chief designer of the department.
In design organizations
In 1963-1965 he worked in another design institute of Sverdlovsk - UralpromstroiNIIproekt. Then he returned to his native institute, where in 1969 he was appointed to the post of chief engineer. Specialists especially noted his work on the design and construction of the cold-rolled shop of the Verkh-Isetsky Metallurgical Plant, located in Sverdlovsk.
Oleg Ivanovich Lobov took responsibility for the processing of construction documentation, coordination of changes with the customer, justification and protection in the parent organization in Moscow. He was distinguished by a rational, pragmatic approach to solving construction issues in the design of industrial complexes and residential buildings. In 1971 he defended his thesis, was engaged in research and implementation of pile foundations in Siberia.
At party work
An excellent engineer was noticed by the regional party leadership. In 1972, a new period began in the work biography of Oleg Ivanovich Lobov. An experienced builder was invited to work in the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU as the deputy head of the construction department. His immediate boss was the future first Russian president.
When Yeltsin went on a promotion in 1975, Lobov took his former post of department head. He managed to establish relations with his boss, while he did not copy the style of work of Boris Nikolaevich and never discussed his immediate supervisor.
All builders of the region recognized the promotion of Oleg Ivanovich as deserved, the authority of the department was then incredibly high. This was his contribution, Lobov worked for three years as deputy. Then still a young party member, he easily entered the local party elite.
In leadership work
After Yeltsin was appointed to the post of first secretary in 1976, Lobov was appointed head of the Glavsreduralstroy trust in Tagil. At 39, he becomes one of the youngest leaders in the construction commanders, and the largest territorial organization. In 1982, he was awarded the title "Honored Builder of the RSFSR".
In the same year he returned to party work, first taking the former post of Yeltsin - secretary for construction, and in 1983 he was appointed to the post of second secretary of the regional committee. In 1985, he was elected chairman of the regional executive committee, worked in the city administration for two years.
In 1987 he was transferred to Moscow as deputy chairman of the government of the RSFSR. The following year, Oleg Ivanovich Lobov was appointed deputy head of the RSFSR headquarters for the aftermath of the earthquake in Spitak. He made a great contribution to helping the victims and families of the victims of the disaster. Here he became closely acquainted with the leadership of the republic, who, appreciating his work style and organizational abilities, suggested moving to work as second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia. He worked in the republic from 1989 to 1991, but forever retained close ties with the Armenian elite.
Return to Moscow
In 1991, he returned to work in the Russian government as the first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers. In total, Oleg Ivanovich Lobov worked in the four governments of the RSFSR and the Russian Federation. In the same year he ran for the post of first secretary of the newly formed Communist Party of the RSFSR, but lost the election.
In 1991, the Russian Government established the Russian-Japanese University, which was supposed to promote the development of relations and attract Japanese investment in the country. However, the institution became famous primarily for its connections with the totalitarian sect Aum Shinrique, who became world famous after the gas attack by sarin in the Tokyo subway. The sect immediately invested 5 million US dollars in Russian nuclear weapons and began to expand its presence in Russia. Subsequently, after the terrorist attack, the arrested sect members testified that they bought the documentation for the production of chemical warfare agents from Oleg Ivanovich Lobov for $ 79,000. However, the Japanese prosecutor's office could not prove his participation in the sect.
In the Security Council
From 1993 to 1996, Lobov worked directly under the leadership of President Yeltsin as Secretary of the Security Council. In this post, he was actively involved in resolving the "Chechen question", which, perhaps, was the reason for the assassination attempt in 1995. A photo of Oleg Ivanovich Lobov in connection with these events appeared in all the leading publications of the country.
In 1993, the Turkish army came close to the borders of Armenia in order to take the side of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. It was Oleg Ivanovich who initiated the sending of Pavel Grachev to Ankara. Which told the Turks that they would get a third world war in case of aggression.
personal information
After retiring, he was engaged in business and until the end of his life was president of the Association for International Cooperation, created under the administration of President Yeltsin. My wife worked as an ambulance doctor, now retired. The spouses have two daughters and a son. About his son, Pavel Lobov, it is known that he was a shareholder in a company specializing in satellite communications.
From his youth Oleg Ivanovich loved volleyball and played for the institute’s national team. When he was a leader in Sverdlovsk, he organized "almost mandatory" sports for employees. When he worked with Boris Yeltsin, he also played with him. In addition, they were neighbors in the state dacha.
Oleg Lobov died on September 6, 2018, not having lived only one day before his 81st birthday. Condolences were expressed by many government organizations. The Armenian community especially honored his memory as a person who did a lot for the country at critical moments in history. At the funeral of Oleg Ivanovich Lobov brought numerous government awards, including the Order of Lenin and the October Revolution.