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Alexander Illarionovich
YEFREMOV
1904–1951
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Soviet of Workers', Peasants' and Red Armymen's Deputies
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3 November 1938 – 14 April 1939
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Born in Moscow into a working-class family. Began working at the age of twelve at railroad repair shops. At the beginning of the 1920s he carried out work in the Young Communist League and in 1924 joined the ranks of the Communist Party. After completing his studies at the Moscow Machine-Tool and Instrumental Institute he worked at the Krasny Proletary factory where he made his way from foreman to director. In 1938 he was elected chairman of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee. In November 1938 he became chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet.
As talented engineer and experienced production worker he thoroughly got to the root of the city industry. He made a great effort to strengthen ties between scientific and production groups, and to speed up the road of scientific discoveries from the laboratory to the conveyor belt. It was under the leadership of A.I. Yefremov that the construction of the third underground line was begun.
In 1939 he was transferred to the post of first Deputy People's Commissar of Heavy Engineering in the USSR. Thereafter he became People's Commissar and deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Elected as member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, and from 1939-1951 a member of the Central Committee of the АН-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Buried in the Kremlin wall on Red Square.
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