Background
KUZMIN, Iosif was born on May 19, 1910 in Astrakhan.
engineer politician diplomatist
KUZMIN, Iosif was born on May 19, 1910 in Astrakhan.
Studied at Leningrad Institute of Water Transport Engineering. 1937 graduated Leningrad Military Electrotechn.
1957 supported Khrushchev in struggle with Malenkov’s “anti-Party group”. 1957 accompanied Khrushchev and Bulganin to Britain. 1959 signed economics and technican cooperation agreement between USSR and Iraq.
Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1954 and 1958 convocation. 1926-1931 joiner at Astrakhan Carpentry Plant, then greaser at Astrakhan Hydroelectr. Plant; 1937-1938 engineer, and Head, Technology Department, Moscow Projector Plant.
1938-1947 Secretary, Party Committee, and Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Party organizer, at Moscow Projector Plant. Chief Inspector, Representative for Kuybyshev Oblast, then Deputy Chairman, Party Control Commission, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1947-1952 in USSR Council of Ministers.
Member, and since 1950 Deputy Chairman, Bureau for Agriculture and Supply, then Assistant Deputy Chairman, USSR Council of Ministry. 1952-1957 Deputy Director, then Director, lnd. Transport Department, then Dept, of Machine Building, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957-1959 First Deputy Chairman, then Chairman, USSR State Planning Committee. 1958-1959 Deputy Chairman, USSR Council of Ministers. 1959-1960 Chairman, State Science and Technology Council, USSR Council of Ministers, and USSR Ministry.
Member, Communist Party, since 1930.
Party Control Commission, Central Committee CPSU (Kuibyshev Region) 1940. Bureau of Agriculture and Storage 1947-1950, Deputy. Council of Ministers of USSR 1947-1957, Deputy.