Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits

Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits (alternatively named Benjamin Dymshitz from February 15, 1910 – May 23, 1993)

Biography Dymshits was born into a tradesman's family on September 28, 1910, in Feodosia (now Crimea). He was the grandson of the Galacian Hebrew writer Abraham–Aba Rakovsky (1854–1921), a journalist and fiction author.

Dymshits:

In 1927, was a worker in Donbass; In 1928, was a worker at enterprises of Moscow; From 1929–1931, was a student of the Moscow Autogenous Welding Institute, later transformed into the Welding Department of the Moscow Higher Technical School named after Nikolai Bauman; In 1931, was a work manager, engineer, production manager, and deputy work manager of the Kuznetskstroy Welding Office; In 1932, was the director of the Ural Regional Welding Office; In 1933, was the Head of the Department of Engineering Structures for Construction at Azovstal in Mariupol; In 1934, studied, while abroad, at the Mechanical Faculty of the Donetsk Institute of Business Executives, but did not graduate; In 1937, was the director of a metalwork plant at the construction site of the Azovstal Metallurgical Plant, and Head of Construction at the Krivoy Rog Metallurgical Plant; In 1939–1946, was the manager of the Magnitostroy Trust, during the Great Patriotic War. Here, Dymshits's high human dignity and talent as a leader were revealed. His task was to lead the creation of an outpost of the domestic industry in Urals. In record time, 42 complexes were built under his leadership; In 1945, graduated from the Moscow Higher Technical School Named After Nikolai Bauman as an external student; In 1946–1950, was the manager of the Zaporozhstroy Trust; In 1950, Deputy Minister of Construction of Heavy Industry Enterprises of the Soviet Union; In 1954–1957, Deputy Minister of Construction of Metallurgical and Chemical Industry Enterprises of the Soviet Union; In 1957–1959, Chief Construction Engineer of the Bhilai Metallurgical Plant in India; From June 9, 1959 to April 25, 1962, was Head of the Capital Construction Department of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union, a Minister of the Soviet Union; From April 25, 1962 to July 17, 1962 was First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union a Minister of the Soviet Union; In July 17, 1962, was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, and a Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union (July – November 1962); From 1962–1965, was Chairman of the Council of the National Economy of the Soviet Union From 1965–1976, Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union for Material and Technical Supply.

On March 4, 1970, Veniamin Dymshits was the main figure at a press conference of Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union, where he defended Soviet policies towards Jews and was against the policies of the State of Israel.

Veniamin Dymshits made a significant contribution to the foundation of the industrialization of the Soviet Union and its transformation into a state. The following are some of the construction projects he participated and/or headed: Azovstal, Kuznetsk, Krivoy Rog, Magnitogorsk, Zaporozhye, Bhilai (India) Metallurgical Plants, lead industry facilities and many others.

In December 20, 1985, he was a personal pensioner of union significance.

Dumshits died on May 23, 1993. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery in lot No. 10).

Awards and prizes Hero of Socialist Labour; Seven Orders of Lenin; Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour; Medals; Stalin Prize of the Second Degree (1946) – for the development of new methods of high–speed construction and installation of blast furnaces, carried out at the Chusovsky and Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plants; Stalin Prize of the Third Degree (1950) – for the development and implementation of technological rules in housing and industrial construction.