Oleg Shishkin (politician)

Oleg Shishkin (born June 26, 1934, in Sudogda, Ivanovo Industrial Region, now Vladimir Oblast) was a politician who served as Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.

Biography

 * 1952–1957: Student at the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications.
 * 1957–1960: Junior Researcher at the Central Scientific Research Institute No. 22 of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.
 * 1960–1962: Senior Engineer at NII-88 in Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast.
 * 1962–1963: First Secretary of the Komsomol (VLKSM) in Kaliningrad, head of the industrial and transport department of the Komsomol in the Moscow Oblast.
 * 1963–1965: Deputy Head of the NII-88 department.
 * 1965–1966: Secretary of the Komsomol in Kaliningrad.
 * 1966–1977: Director of the Institute of Measurement Technology of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
 * 1977: Director and Chief Designer of the NII of Precision Instruments of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
 * 1977–1981: General Director and Chief Designer of the Scientific-Production Association of Precision Instruments of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
 * From 1981 in the apparatus of the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR: Deputy Minister, and from 1987, First Deputy Minister.
 * 1989–1991: Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR.
 * 1991–1994: President of Rosobshchemash.

He retired in 1994.

Awards and decorations

 * Hero of Socialist Labor (1982)
 * Orders of Lenin x 2 (1975, 1982)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966)
 * Lenin Prize (1986)
 * State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Yuri Gagarin in the field of space activities (2011) - for the development of the rocket and space industry, organization of space activities and the use of its results in the interests of science, ensuring socio-economic development and defense capability of the country.