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Mikhail Alexeyevich

YASNOV

1906–1991

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Soviet
of Working People's Deputies

18 January 1950 – 2 February 1956

Born in the Moscow gubernia into a peasant family. Began working at the age of fourteen as an unskilled labourer at the railways. In 1925 he received a degree at the workers' faculty of Moscow State University without discontinuing work. From 1930 he worked at construction organisations, making his way from master at a construction site to deputy chairman for construction of the Moscow City Executive Committee (1938). During the Battle for Moscow he was in charge of the operative group responsible for the construction of the Mozhaisk defence line, the city's emergency repair service and the department for the building of defence installations which protected the capital directly. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

In January 1950 he replaced G.M. Popov in the post of chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet. It was during his leadership that the implementation of the second plan for the reconstruction of the capital was begun. The sharp increase in the inhabitants of the city and the slow-down in construction during the war years increased the acuteness of the housing problem. Mikhail Yasnov did much for the creation of a powerful production basis, the enlargement of building organisations and the creation of house-building complexes and concrete products plants.

During these years the high-rise buildings were completed and the South-West, Izmailovo, Peschanye streets and other districts of the city rose at a quick rate. New underground tracks were laid, including the building of the big ring line which was finished in 1953. On the whole the extent of large-scale building in Moscow doubled during the years between 1950 and 1955.

In 1957 Yasnov was appointed first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation, and from 1966 to 1985 headed the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. He was six times awarded the Order of Lenin and made a Hero of Socialist Labour.