Ivan Isidorovich Nosenko (Russian: Иван Исидорович Носенко; 19 April 1902 – 2 August 1956) was a Soviet politician and from 1939 until his death in 1956. He was the People's Commissar for Shipbuilding of the USSR. He was the father of notable Soviet defector and KGB officer, Yuri Nosenko.
Biography
Nosenko was born in the village of Berlevets in Bryansky Uyezd and joined the Nikolayev Shipyard as a messenger boy in 1914. He became a trade unionist, and after completing military service and graduating from the Nikolayev Shipbuilding Institute, returned to the yard as a manager. Nosenko joined the All-Union Communist Party (b) in 1925. Between 1938 and 1939 he was the managing director of the Baltic Yard in Leningrad. He was appointed Narkom (minister) of shipbuilding in 1940 and was also the 1st deputy commissar of the tank industry during the war. He was elected to the Supreme Soviet in 1954 and between 1954 and 1956 was also head of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building (Atomic Energy).
At his funeral, important leaders of the Soviet Union, including Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Kliment Voroshilov, formed the honor guard. He has been commemorated with a bronze plaque in the Kremlin wall.
Awards and honors
- Three Orders of Lenin
- Order of Nakhimov, 1st class (1945)
- Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of the Red Star (1942)
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1938)
Notes
- Yuri Nosenko: Oswald's KGB Supervisor
- Yuri Nosenko, The Economist, Sep 4th 2008
Further reading
- IVAN NOSENKO DIES; SOVIET MINISTER, 54, New York Times, August 4, 1956, Saturday
- 1902 births
- 1956 deaths
- People from Bryansky Uyezd
- Candidates of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- Candidates of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Candidates of the Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union
- Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of Nakhimov, 1st class
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
- Russian mechanical engineers
- Soviet mechanical engineers
- Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis