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Nikolai Ivanovich
BOBROVNIKOV
1909–1991
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Soviet of Working People's Deputies
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2 February 1956 – 2 September 1961
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Born in the Ryazan gubernia into the family of an elevator weigher. Worked as an unskilled labourer at the railroads and then at a locomotive depot. After completing his studies at the Moscow Construction Engineering Institute he worked as shop master and then chief engineer at the Rublyovo waterworks and from 1939 as the head of the Stalin Waterworks. For his capable maintenance of its functioning during the war he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In 1948 he became head of the Department for Water Supply and Sewerage of the Moscow City Executive Committee, and thereafter deputy chairman and first deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee. During the five years in which Bobrovnikov headed the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet the city turned into a huge construction site.
In a very short period of time the sport complex at Luzhniki was built. In 1959 the creation of the satellite town of Zelenograd was begun. In 1957 new underground stations were opened. Bobrovnikov made a big contribution to the holding of the World Youth and Students Festival in 1957. This international event required unprecedented effort, accuracy and competence from the Executive Committee and its services.
At the same time it was in these years that under the pressure of N.S. Khrushchev the tendency broke out of erecting low-rise buildings uncomfortable to Jive in.
Later Bobrovnikov worked as deputy chairman of the USSR State Economic Council and head of a department of 'the USSR State Planning Committee.
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