Shakhurin Alexey Ivanovich

Graduated from the Moscow Engineering and Economic Institute in 1932. Since 1933 in military service. In 1933-1938 he served in the research and training department of the N. E. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. Since February 1938, the party organizer at the plant of the People's Commissariat of the aviation industry. In 1938-1939 he was the first secretary of the Yaroslavl Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. He normalized the socio-political situation in the region, established party work after mass repressions. In 1939-1940 he was the first secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
In 1940-1946, the People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry. In the summer of 1944, Stalin instructed Shakhurin to examine everything that was possible, together with the advancing troops, at the German missile range, which was to be captured by the Red Army in Poland.
In 1946, Shakhurin was repressed for the "aviation case". On May 10-11, 1946, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, chaired by V. V. Ulrikh, sentenced him to 7 years on charges of "abuse of power" and "producing non-standard, poor-quality and incomplete products." May 29, 1953 rehabilitated and released. On June 2, 1953, all awards and titles were returned.
In 1953-1957, Deputy Minister of the Aviation Industry of the USSR, First Deputy Minister of the Aviation Industry of the USSR.
In 1957 - August 1959 - Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Foreign Economic Relations.
Since August 1959 retired. Author of memoirs "Wings of Victory"