1888 - 1937
Chairman of the Organizational
Bureau of the Institute
from 1926 to 1927
Semyon S. Lobov was a Soviet
statesman. He was born in Pes’kovo village
of Znamensky uyezd of Kaluga province (now Ugransky district of
Smolensk region). Education – the elementary school. He worked at the
construction of the Amurskaya railway, as a worker at the “Former Rosenkranz”
factory. Since 1918 – the member of the Presidium of the Petrograd
Extraordinary Commission.
Since May of 1919 – the Chairman of the Saratov
Extraordinary Commission, member of the Committee of the Russian Communist
(Bolshevist) Party of the Saratov
province. Since May of 1920 – the commissioner of the All-Russian Extraordinary
Commission for the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet
Socialist Republic,
the People’s Commissar of internal affairs of the Bashkir Republic.
Since 1921 – the Head of the Fuel Department and Manager of the Petroleum Syndicate
of the USSR.
Since 1923 – the Chairman of the North - West Industrial Bureau of the Supreme
Soviet of the National Economy of the USSR, member of the Main Concession
Committee, since 1924 – member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the
National Economy of the USSR. Since 1926 – the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet
of the National Economy of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist
Republic, Head of the Main Energy
Department of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Russian Soviet
Federative Socialist
Republic. Since December
of 1930 – the Deputy People’s Commissar of provision of the USSR. Since
1932 – the People’s Commissar of the forestry of the USSR. Since 1936 – the People’s
Commissar of food processing industry of the Russian Soviet
Federative Socialist
Republic. On June 21,
1937 he was arrested and sentenced to death accused of participation in an
anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary terrorist organization. He was executed by
shooting. Posthumously rehabilitated in
1956.