Vladislav Mikhailovich Malaev

Vladislav Mikhailovich Malaev was the First Secretary of the Kirov District Committee of the CPSU and a participant in the Great Patriotic War. He was born in the town of Buzuluk in the Orenburg Region. In 1938 his family moved to Primorsky Krai. In 1942 he joined the VLKSM (Komsomol). Without completing nine grades, in 1944 he entered the seafaring training school in Vladivostok. In 1949 he enrolled in the Ussuriysk Teacher's Institute, while simultaneously working as the director of the radio editorial office of the town of Ussuriysk. He trained as a radio journalist and announcer.

 

After his studies he worked as an electrician on the tanker "Taganrog", which made voyages to the USA and Canada. He worked as a school director, at a vocational technical school (GPTU), and in various positions in party and Soviet bodies in the Oktyabrsky and Pogranichny districts of Primorsky Krai. From 1967 to 1985 he was the First Secretary of the Kirov District Committee of the CPSU. Under Malaev's leadership many social facilities were built, including a new school, a hospital complex, the district museum, Victory Square and Kirov Square, and a House of Culture. He was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner of Labour, the "Badge of Honour", "For Military Merit" and others. Vladislav Mikhailovich Malaev passed away on April 9, 1994. A manufacturing company "Niva" and the Kirov District Museum were named after him.