Nikolay Dudorov

Nikolai Dudorov (; 1906–1977) was a Soviet politician who served as the minister of internal affairs between 1956 and 1960.

Early life and education Dudorov was born in a village, Mishnevo, in Vladimir province in 1906. In 1927 he joined the Communist Party. On 25 February he was also elected a full member of the central committee of the Communist Party in the twentieth congress.

Dudorov's appointment as the minister of internal affairs was the end of the hegemony of the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) origin figures in the ministry. Dudorov advocated parole as a solution to the Gulag problem. He also developed a detailed plan to modify the Gulag, but his plan was not accepted by the related commission although it included three major points, namely Khrushchev's idea of smaller camps, Stalin's views on the prison camps based on industrial development and dominant ideas of the ministry executives on criminals. Later, Dudorov managed to implement a plan to reorganize the penal system depending on smaller colonies, but the plan was not a success. Dudorov's reformist views could not save him from the dismissal on 1 May 1960. Dudorov's membership in the central committee of the Communist party also ended in 1961.

From 1960 to 1967 Dudorov was the general commissioner of the World Exhibition. His last post was the head of a department under the Moscow City executive committee which he held from 1962 to his retirement in 1972 .

Personal life and death Dudorov was married to Zoya Alekseevna Dudorova (1910–2002), and they had two children, a daughter and a son.

Dudorov died in Moscow in March 1977 and buried there in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Awards Dudorov was the recipient of the Order of Lenin (twice), the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Order of the Red Star.