Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky

Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky was a Soviet political and state figure and an economist. He was born on December 1, 1903, in the village of Tyoploe in Chernsky Uyezd of Tula Governorate, into the family of an employee of a forestry office. Voznesensky began his working life at the age of 14 as an apprentice carpenter and a printing-shop worker. In 1919 he was assigned to Komsomol work. Voznesensky served as an organizer of the uyezd organization of the RKSM in the town of Chern, Tula Governorate, and then worked in the Tula Governorate Komsomol bodies. In 1924 he graduated from the Communist University named after Y. M. Sverdlov.

After graduating from the university, Voznesensky was sent to the Donbass. He worked as the party organizer (partorg) at the Yenakiieve metallurgical plant, and then in the propaganda department of the Yenakiieve and Artemovsk committees of the VKP(b). In 1928 Voznesensky entered the economics faculty of the Institute of Red Professors, where, after completing his studies in 1931, he became a lecturer. In 1935 he defended his doctoral dissertation. He then worked in Leningrad's planning bodies, developing a ten-year plan for the city's development. In 1937 he was summoned to Moscow, and in January 1938 he became Chairman of Gosplan of the USSR. His activities during the war and afterwards were recognized with the State Prize of the USSR. On October 27, 1949, he was arrested in the "Leningrad case." On September 30, 1950, he was executed. After Stalin's death he was rehabilitated.