Iosif Kuzmin
OfficeChairman of the State Planning Committee
Term start10 May 1957
Term end20 March 1959
PremierNikita Khrushchev
PredecessorNikolai Baibakov
SuccessorAlexei Kosygin
Office 2First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Term start 23 May 1957
Term end 231 March 1958
Premier 2Nikita Khrushchev
Predecessor 2Maksim Saburov
Successor 2Frol Kozlov
Birth date19 May 1910
Birth placeAstrakhan, Imperial Russia
Death date12 January 1996 (aged 85)
Death placeMoscow, Russian Federation
PartyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1930–1961)
Native nameИосиф Кузьмин

Iosif Iosifovich Kuzmin (Russian: Ио́сиф Ио́сифович Кузьми́н; 19 May O.S. 1910 – 12 January 1996) was a Soviet-Russian statesman who was First Deputy of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1957 to 1958 and Chairman of the State Planning Committee from 1957 to 1959.[1]

Kuzmin was awarded the Order of Lenin, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Badge of Honour.

References

  1. ^ Ivkin, V.I. (1999). State power of the USSR. The highest authorities and management and their leaders. 1923-1991 Historical and biographical reference book.. Moscow.