Mykola Lavrukhin

Mykola Vasylovych Lavrukhin (January 25, 1925, Mityakinska village, Tarasovsky district, Rostov region, RSFSR, USSR—September 18, 1994, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian Soviet statesman, chairman of the executive committee of the Kyiv City Council of People's Deputies in 1990, honored builder of the Ukrainian SSR, and laureate of the prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR of the 10th and 11th convocations.

Biography He was born into a peasant family. He started his career in 1943 as a track repair worker on the Donetsk Railway. In 1947, he graduated from the Voroshilovograd Technical School of Railway Transport, after which he worked in the Voroshilovograd construction and assembly department of the "Pivdenavtoprombud" trust as a foreman, head of department, and chief engineer.

In 1954, he graduated from higher engineering courses at the Kyiv Engineering and Construction Institute, then studied at a graduate school.

Member of the CPSU since 1955.

In 1957–1961, he worked as a senior engineer of the Ministry of Construction of the Ukrainian SSR and chief specialist of the State Building of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1961–1963, he worked as a chief engineer and then as a manager of the "Buddetal" trust of the Holovkyivmskbudu.

In 1963–1970, he was the head of the construction and urban management departments of the Kyiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Since 1970, he has worked as the first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Kyiv City Council of Workers' Deputies (since 1978 of the Kyiv City Council of People's Deputies). From January 17 to December 29, 1990, he was the chairman of the executive committee of the Kyiv City Council of People's Deputies.

Since 1991, he has been the head of the department for technogenic and ecological safety, emergency situations, and the design and construction of complex engineering structures at the Kyiv City State Administration.

He died on September 18, 1994, in a sanatorium in Koncha-Zaspa. Buried at Baikovo Cemetery (plot No. 1). Legacy A street in Vygurivshchyna-Troyeshchyna in Kyiv was named after Lavrukhin and a bronze commemorative sign was erected to him near house No. 7 on this street.