Boris Evdokimovich Shcherbina is a well-known Soviet statesman and public figure. Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor. In 1986, he supervised the elimination of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Biography
Boris was born in October 1919 in the small Ukrainian village of Debaltsevo. His father worked all his life as a railway worker, and Boris decided to follow in his father's footsteps. After receiving secondary education and graduating from school in 1937, he entered the Kharkov Railway Institute. After two years of diligent study and rather energetic social activity, he was awarded a diploma from the central committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine and joined the CPSU.
Party career
The beginning of work in the party for Boris fell on the war years. His main activity was the organization of railway cargo transportation. In 1942 he was appointed secretary of the regional committee of the Komsomol in the city of Kharkov. After the occupation of the city by the Nazis, he was transferred to the central committee of the Komsomol. In 1943, when the city was recaptured, Shcherbina returned to his former position. In the postwar years, he entered a higher school under the Central Committee, from which he graduated in 1948.
In the early fifties, he was sent to Siberia to do chores. Under his leadership, extremely ambitious and large-scale projects were implemented, the largest in the Soviet Union, the Bratsk and Irkutsk hydroelectric power stations, were built. He also supervised the design and construction of the famous cities of Shelekhov and Angarsk. In 1955, under the vigilant control of Shcherbina, an oil refinery was launched in Siberia.
In the early sixties, after the successful completion of projects in the Irkutsk region, Boris was transferred to Tyumen, where he headed the regional committee of the Communist Party. Under his leadership, a large-scale oil production, the largest in the Soviet Union, was developed in this region.
Work in the Council of Ministers of the USSR
From 1973 to 1984, Boris Shcherbina held a high position, heading the ministry that was engaged in the construction of oil and gas production enterprises. Already at the beginning of 84, Shcherbina became the first deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers.
Probably everyone knows the black date: April 26, 1986. It was then that one of the largest man-made disasters in history occurred, one of the power units of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. The government of the USSR urgently created a commission for the elimination of the consequences, which was headed by Boris Shcherbina. On the same day, he flew to Kiev, and from there went to Pripyat, from where he directed the process. Thanks to promptly taken measures, residents were evacuated from nearby villages in the shortest possible time, and the fire at the station was also extinguished.
Personal life and death
Boris Evdokimovich was married to Raisa Pavlovna Shcherbina, in 1941 they had a son whose name was Yuri. Work in Chernobyl severely undermined the health of the minister, after the accident he lived only four years and died in August 1990 on the 22nd. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery, and a memorial plaque was installed on his house.
