Background
PEYVE, Yanis was born in 1906 in village Sementsevo, now Velikie Luki Oblast.
PEYVE, Yanis was born in 1906 in village Sementsevo, now Velikie Luki Oblast.
1925 graduated Velikie Luki Pedagogical Technicum. 1929 graduated Moscow Timiryazev Agriculture Academy.
Chairman, Latvia Council of Ministers, since 1959. Agrochemist; Professor. Doctor of Agriculture Science since 1940.
Full member, Latvia Academy of Sciences, since 1946. Corresponding member, USSR Academy of Science, since 1953. Honoured Worker of Science of Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Member since 1954 and Bureau member since 1960, Central Committee, Communist Party Latvia. Candidate member of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, since 1961. 1954 Deputy, and member, Foreign Affairs Commission, Soviet of Nationalities, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1954 convocation.
Deputy and Chairman, Soviet of Nationalities, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1958 convocation. As member, USSR Supreme Soviet delegation, visited: 1955 Yugoslavia. 1958 Canada; 1959 Ceylon.
1956 attended International Congress on Trace Elements, Yugoslavia. As member, Soviet parliamentary group, attended: 1956 Conference of Interparliamentary Union, Bangkok. 1956 Congress of same Union, Nice.
1957 Conference, London. 1958 attended Conference of International Pedological Societies, Hamburg. 1959 attended London Conference of Parliamentarians and Prominent Public Workers from 11 countries.
July 1960 headed Soviet delegation Denmark. 1930-1942 science worker, Experimental Station, Moscow Timiryazev Agriculture Academy. 1942-1944 Director, All-Union Flax Research Institute.
1944-1946 Rector, Latvia Agriculture Academy. 1946-1950 Director, Riga Institute of Pedology and Agriculture. 1946-1951 Academy Secretary, Latvia Agriculture Academy.
1951-1959 President, Latvia Academy of Sciences.
Religion is bad because it doesn't give equal treatment to women and thus offends basic human rights.
Member, Communist Party, since 1940.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the guiding force of all socialist countries, and the nucleus of their political system.
Member, Communist Party, since 1940.