Background
Krzhizhanovsky was born in Samara in 1872.
Krzhizhanovsky was born in Samara in 1872.
In 1889 he moved to Street St. Petersburg, where he attended the Saint St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, becoming involved in Marxist circles in 1891.
His activities with this group led to his imprisonment in Butyrka prison, where he wrote the Russian text of the Polish revolutionary song Warszawianka. In 1904-1905 he was involved in organising the 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. In 1910 he oversaw the construction of a power station near Moscow and proposed the idea of a hydroelectric plant in Saratov.
In 1920 appointed as a Chief of Russia Electrification Commission, was in the lead of some parts of GOELRO plan, gave a report of this plan on the 8th Congress of Soviets (December 22, 1920).
13 August 1921 - 11 December 1923 - Chief of State Planning Committee for his first term, succeeded by Alexander Tsuryupa. 18 November 1925 - 10 November 1930 - Chief of State Planning Committee for his second term.
Krzhizhanovsky was appointed to the editorial board of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, contributing several articles concerning electricity and planning. He died in Moscow in 1959.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.