Background
Petriosants, Andronik was born in 1906.
Petriosants, Andronik was born in 1906.
Graduated from the Ural Institute of Mechanical Engineering in 1933.
Joined the Communist Party in 1932. Top position at the Ordzhonikidze Machine Building Plant in the Urals, 1933-1939. Deputy People’s Commissar for Heavy Machine Building and member of the Collegium of the Ministry of Heavy Machine Building, then USSR 1st Deputy People’s Commissar for Machine Tool Building, 1939-1941.
Deputy People’s Commissar for the USSR Armoured Vehicles Industry and member of
staff of the USSR Ministry of Medium Machine Building, 1955-1962. Chairman of the State Committee for the Use of Atomic Energy with the USSR Council of Ministers. Head of the investigating team into the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986.