Background
GORBUNOV, Nikolay was born in 1892. Son of an engineering
GORBUNOV, Nikolay was born in 1892. Son of an engineering
1917 graduate Chemistry Department, Saint St. Petersburg Technol Institute.
1917 joined Mezlirayontsy, then the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Bolshevik faction. From mid-1917 head Information Bureau, All-Russian Central Executive Committee. From November 1917 secretary, Council of People's Commissar and Lenin’s persona] secretary.
From August 1918 head, Sciences and Technical Department, Supreme Economic Council. Fall 1919 member, Revol-Military Council, 13th and 14th Armies. From December 1920 business mang, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Council of People's Commissar.
December 1922-1932 business mang, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Council of People's Commissar and Labor and Defense Council. 1923-1929 simultaneously rector, Moscow Higher Technical College. 1928-1932 chairman, Sciences Commission, Committee for Chemization.
1931-1933 deputy director, L. Ya. Karpov Chemical Institute. 1931-1934 member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Planning Committee.
1928 leader, Soviet-German Pamir expedition. 1929 co-founder and deputy president, All-Union Lenin Academy of Agric Sciences. 1932 leader, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences joint expedition to study natural resources of Tadzhikistan
Arrested by State Security organs. Public/: Kak rabotal Vladimir Il’ich. Sbornik statey i vospominaniy (How Vladimir Il’yich [Lenin| Worked.
A Collection of Articles and Reminiscences) (1933).
Member and life-secr, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1935.