The person who led the industry of a huge country and developed the industrial power of the state, the political and state leader is Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko.
Biography
He was born in Voronezh province in 1906. From the age of nineteen he began to work, early learned the hellish labor of a miner in the Donbass. An ordinary activist, he rallied the young generation near him.
Since 1929 - a member of the Komsomol organization, since 1931 - a member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. In 1936, he successfully graduated from the Aviation Institute, shockly worked as an ordinary engineer at a specialized plant in Zaporozhye.
The political repressions of 1938 naturally led to an acute shortage of managerial personnel, and an initiative communist was attracted to party work. Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko has successfully proved himself a strong-willed, purposeful and energetic leader.
Further prospects opened up serious. A year later, Andrei Pavlovich was appointed second secretary of the Zaporozhye regional committee. He works with full dedication. The country was on the verge of hard trials, was not ready for war, and time was running out. At this time, there was an acquaintance with Leonid Brezhnev, secretary of the regional committee of Dnepropetrovsk.
Severe test
The war began in 1941 ... The merciless enemy was rapidly approaching, it was necessary to immediately evacuate industry to the rear areas of the country. The second secretary competently organized the transportation of plants in the shortest possible time.
An unmistakable plan for moving the head was thoroughly developed back in 1939 - he thought so far-sightedly and rationally. Since November 1941, he has held a position in the military council of the army.
An active strong business executive and organizer, in 1943 Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko was sent by the authorized representative of the State Defense Committee to the aircraft factory in Moscow. Thanks to the work of a talented manager and his practical ability to mobilize, output for the front has increased significantly.
The communist did not spare himself. In 1944, an experienced leader was immediately sent to restore industrial facilities in Zaporozhye as the second secretary of the regional and city party committees.
Dnepropetrovsk team
In 1946, Leonid Brezhnev was officially approved for the party leadership of Zaporozhye, appointing Kirilenko the first assistant. The joint work brought them together and made friends, until the end of their lives they remained faithful companions.
Andrei Pavlovich, as a closest friend, uttered winged words on the anniversary, that 70 years for the leader is average age. In 1947, Leonid Ilyich transferred to the party administration of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee, in 1950 Andrey Pavlenovich Kirilenko took the post. The photo below was taken while visiting the factory.
This area is a strategic center of metallurgy and mechanical engineering. Here, under the general guidance of the secretary of the regional committee, they immediately began mass production of strategic combat missiles.
Later, when Brezhnev became the head of the country, career advancements of reliable people began, with which he had previously worked successfully. The overwhelming majority of the proteges worked in the regional committee of Dnepropetrovsk, therefore the phrase “Dnepropetrovsk team” went for a walk.
The ability to take the right step
The successes of the secretary in managing the region were marked by the Center, so Kirilenko was entrusted to the industrial heart of the USSR - the Sverdlovsk region. The territory was actively led by an experienced, effective manager who went through the war and restores industry from ruins.
As L. I. Brezhnev continued to move to the heights of power, Andrei Pavlovich also moved. In the years 1955-1962. he stood at the head of the Sverdlovsk regional committee. They say that he was the initiator of the construction of mansions for the reception of Moscow officials.
Having learned about this initiative, the nearest neighbors frequented the region with a request to share project documentation. Under his leadership, workshop methods of building from individual overall parts were actively used in the area.
Blocks and panels were mass-produced industrially, which guaranteed quality. The enterprises of the construction industry were built, new ones were created and the obsolete Ural factories were improved.
Intrigues in leadership
At that time, there was a behind-the-scenes power struggle in the Center, in which representatives of the regions also participated. In 1957, in Moscow, Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, together with a group of high-ranking comrades, signed a paper on the convening of the Central Committee and the removal of Khrushchev. True, speaking at the Plenum, he defended the party’s first secretary and denounced the “opposition”.
In June 1962, Kirilenko immediately flew to the city of Novocherkassk, where the workers staged a spontaneous unauthorized rally. The situation was gradually getting out of hand.
Andrei Pavlovich deliberately exaggerated when he personally reported on the situation. By decision of Nikita Khrushchev, troops were brought into the city, and later consent was obtained for the use of weapons.
In 1962, Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko falls into the Politburo. The internal party struggle was in full swing, political monsters: Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich were gradually removed. Soon came the turn of Nikita Khrushchev.
Head of Industry
Since 1966, Andrei Pavlovich has commanded Soviet industry, he does not sit in his office, but rushes into the thick of the people, to where the great construction sites are. The manager completed the task: the giants of mechanical engineering and energy were finally built.
Kirilenko had unquestioned authority, they reckon with him - he is the third person in the party. Andrei Pavlovich - representative of the Brezhnev group in the political leadership. In the 70s, he was considered the probable successor of I. Brezhnev as Secretary General.
Kirilenko Andrei Pavlovich got acquainted with the activities of the Stavropol Territorial Committee in 1978 and spoke extremely negatively about the work of N. S. Gorbachev. Kirilenko considered it inappropriate to transfer the latter to Moscow.
Relations with Kosygin deteriorated after Alexei Nikolayevich documented the decision to send troops to Afghanistan as adopted by the Central Committee as a whole. Although only three people discussed this in a narrow meeting.
Last years
In the early 80s, the health of Andrei Pavlovich shook sharply. At the XXVI Party Congress in March 1981, he could not correctly, without distortion, read the list of names - those sitting in the hall were shocked: behind the podium stood a sick, feeble old man. But this did not become an obstacle to the inclusion of Kirilenko in the Politburo.
After the death of Brezhnev, Andrei Pavlovich goes on a well-deserved rest. He lives in Moscow, every morning, out of habit, going to work - he does not understand what is happening ... He died in May 1990, was buried in the Troekurovsky cemetery. After the death of the heirs, there was nothing left. So the son of the communist era, Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, left.
Family: wife - Elizaveta Ivanovna, daughter Valentina and son Anatoly.
A talented leader re-created the country. He raised from the ruins after the war and rebuilt the plants. Such was Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, whose relatives keep a memory of him.