Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
Глеб Кржижановский
Krzhizhanovsky in 1904
Chairman of the State Planning Committee
In office
February 1921 – 11 December 1923
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byAlexander Tsiurupa
In office
18 November 1925 – 10 November 1930
PremierAlexei Rykov
Preceded byAlexander Tsiurupa
Succeeded byValerian Kuybyshev
Personal details
Born(1872-01-24)24 January 1872
Died31 March 1959(1959-03-31) (aged 87)
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis
PartyRussian Social Democratic Labor Party (1898–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1959)
Spouse
(m. 1899; death 1948)
Alma materSaint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
OccupationScientist, translator, writer
AwardsHero of Socialist Labour

Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky (Russian: Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский; 24 January [O.S. 12 January] 1872 – 31 March 1959) was a Soviet scientist, statesman, revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and state figure as well as a geographer and writer.

Born to the family of a nobleman of Polish descent (Polish surname: Krzyżanowski), he became the longtime chairman of the Gosplan and director of the GOELRO, an Academician of Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1957).