Background
Shalaev, Stepan was born in 1929.
Shalaev, Stepan was born in 1929.
Graduated from the Moscow Technical Institute of Forestry, 1951.
Chief engineer in the forest industry in the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1951-1953. Director of various timber works in the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Kalinin and Novgorod oblasts, 1955-1962. Chairman of the Central Committee of the Timber, Paper and Wood-Processing Industries Workers’ Union, 1963-1968.
Secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, 1968-1980. Deputy to the USSR Supreme Soviet from 1979. Member of the Presidium from November 1982.
USSR Minister of the Timber, Pulp and Paper and Wood Processing Industries, 1980-1982. Candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1981. Chairman of AllUnion Central Council of Trade Unions, 1982.
One of Gorbachev’s supporters.