Ivan Bolshakov

Ivan Grigoryevich Bolshakov (; 10 October 1902 – 19 March 1980) was a Soviet bureaucrat who was chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography and Minister of Cinematography of the Soviet Union (1939–1953).

Biography Born into a bourgeois family. From 1916 to 1922, he worked as a machine operator, and then as a timekeeper at the Tula Arms Factory.

Since June 1939 – Chairman of the Committee for Cinematography Under the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, since March 1946 – Minister of Cinematography of the Soviet Union.

From 1953 to 1954, he worked as First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union.

From 1954 to 1959 – Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union.

Buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Awards Two Orders of Lenin (April 14, 1944; March 6, 1966) Order of the Red Banner of Labour Two Orders of the Badge of Honour

Image in the cinema The Inner Circle (1991) – Alexander Feklistov