Background
Aleksandrov, Ivan was born in 1857 in Moscow.
Aleksandrov, Ivan was born in 1857 in Moscow.
Graduated from the Higher Technical School (now Bauman Higher Technical School), Moscow, also from the School of Railway Engineering.
Worked as an eingeer and consultant. One of the chief engineers with the GOELRO Electrification Plan. One of the heads of GOSPLAN, 1921-1924.
Chief engineer with the Dneproges Power Station, 1921-1927, and the Central Asia Electrification Plan, 1928. In charge of various irrigation and economic projects during the 1930s, using Gulag prisoners as a source of cheap labour. Head of the Transport Department, Head of the cttee. in charge of the Central Asian university project in Tashkent.
One of the main representatives of the old technocratic intelligentsia. Attacked for his reactionary views.
Religion is bad because it wastes time and money.
The system with equal access of every Soviet citizen to national wealth can be created under the leadership of the Communist Party.
Member of the Academy of Sciences, 1932.