Vyacheslav Malyshev

Vyacheslav Malyshev
Вячеслав Малышев
Malyshev, c. 1938
People's Commissar for Heavy Machine Building
In office
19 June 1939 – 17 April 1940
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byAleksandr Yefremov
Minister of Medium Machine Building
In office
17 July 1953 – 28 February 1957
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byAvraami Zavenyagin
Full member of the 19th Presidium
In office
16 October 1952 – 6 March 1953
Personal details
Born(1902-12-03)December 3, 1902
Ust-Sysolsk, Russian Empire
DiedSeptember 20, 1957(1957-09-20) (aged 54)
Cause of deathAcute radiation syndrome
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
CitizenshipSoviet
PartyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1926–1957)
Alma materBauman School
OccupationEngineer, politician
Known forSoviet program of nuclear weapon
AwardsOrder of Lenin (1952)
Stalin Prize (1949, 1951)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1944)
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Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Malyshev (Russian: Вячеслав Александрович Малышев; 3 December 1902 — 20 February 1957) was a Soviet politician and an engineer who was one of the senior program managers in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons during the 1940s and 1950s.

He was instrumental in militarizing the Soviet space program while he also played a crucial role in Russian development of the nuclear submarines for the former Soviet Navy. Malyshev died in 1957, aged 54.