Ivan Spiridonov
Ivan Vasilyevich Spiridonov (October 23, 1905, Pogibalovka, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate – July 7, 1991, Moscow) was a Soviet statesman and party leader. In 1954–1962, he was the First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee, then the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1959–1962 – Member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1962–1970 – Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Early life and engineering career Born into a peasant family. Since 1925 – a mechanic, head of the technical control department of the shop. In 1939, he graduated from the Leningrad Correspondence Industrial Institute. Since 1939, in engineering and technical positions, director of the Oryol Textile Machinery Plant. In 1941, the plant was evacuated to Kuznetsk, Penza Region, was transformed into the Kuznetsk Textile Engineering Plant and redesigned to produce products for the Special Forces Missile Forces. In 1944–1950, he was the director of the Leningrad Gosmetr Plant. Political career In 1950–1952, he was Secretary of the Moscow District Committee of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the city of