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34-527: In July 1941, Aleksandr Shcherbakov received a proposal from emigrants from Slavic countries living in the USSR to create an “All-Slavic Committee”. This idea was approved by Joseph Stalin . The committee was created on October 5, 1941, at the constituent assembly of representatives of the Slavic peoples living in the USSR. The main goal of the committee during the war years was the formation of an anti-fascist movement in

68-496: A Caa1rating based on the region's long-term foreign currency liabilities. The region maintains trade relations with many countries and has an export surplus. The largest volume of exports goes to Ukraine , Belarus , Switzerland , Kazakhstan , Belgium , and France . Imports come mainly from Ukraine , Germany , Belarus , Kazakhstan , Austria , Netherlands , China , and the United States . The stock market infrastructure

102-569: A craving for alcohol, but simply because it pleased Stalin when people around him drank themselves under the table." According to historian Natalia Borisova “he (Shcherbakov) enjoyed enormous authority in Moscow. He was respected, even revered, listening to every word. Many later remembered him as a most noble man, a spiritual aristocrat, an exceptional personality”. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ( Russian : Нижегородская область , romanized :  Nizhegorodskaya oblast' )

136-714: Is Arzamas . Near the town of Sarov there is the Serafimo-Diveyevsky Monastery , one of the largest convents in Russia, established by Saint Seraphim of Sarov . The Makaryev Monastery opposite of the town of Lyskovo used to be the location of the largest fair in Eastern Europe. Other historic towns include Gorodets and Balakhna , located on the Volga to the north from Nizhny Novgorod. The oblast covers an area of 76,900 square kilometers (29,700 sq mi), which

170-464: Is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast ). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod . It has a population of 3,119,115 as of the 2021 Census . From 1932 to 1990 it was known as Gorky Oblast ( Russian : Горьковская область ). The oblast is crossed by the Volga River . Apart from Nizhny Novgorod's metropolitan area (including Dzerzhinsk , Bor and Kstovo ) the biggest city

204-666: Is approximately equal to the entire area of the Benelux countries or Czech Republic . Agricultural land occupies 41% of this area; forests, 48%, lakes and rivers, 2%; and other lands, 9%. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast borders Kostroma Oblast (N), Kirov Oblast (NE), the Mari El Republic (E), the Chuvash Republic (E), the Republic of Mordovia (S), Ryazan Oblast (SW), Vladimir Oblast (W), and Ivanovo Oblast (NW). Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

238-514: Is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group. Vital statistics for 2022: Total fertility rate (2022): 1.31 children per woman Life expectancy (2021): Total — 68.93 years (male — 63.81, female — 73.97) According to the Federal Migration Service, 20,450 foreign citizens were registered in the oblast in 2006. The actual number of foreigners residing in

272-722: Is not rich in natural resources, which are limited to commercial deposits of sand (including titanium-zirconium sands), clay , gypsum , peat , mineral salt , and timber . The sites of Pustyn I and the settlement of Naumovka I, Krasny Bor 5 and others belong to the Mesolithic era in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Burial grounds of the Fatyanovo culture of the Bronze Age were found in the Chkalovsky, Vetluzhsky and Krasnobakovsky districts. In

306-446: Is noted for having relatively highly developed market relations. Today, the region needs serious partners interested in equitable, long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships. There are 650+ industrial companies in the region, most of them engaged in the following sectors: These key industries are supplemented by other sectors of the economy such as agriculture, trade, services, communications and transport. Narrow gauge railways in

340-443: Is quite well developed in Nizhny Novgorod, and the exchange business is expanding. Companies and organizations registered in the region include 1153 joint-stock companies, 63 investment institutions, 34 commercial banks, 35 insurance companies, 1 voucher investment fund, 1 investment fund, 17 nongovernmental pension funds, 2 associations of professional stock market dealers, and 3 exchanges (stock, currency, and agricultural). The oblast

374-770: The Great Purge , he served "as a mobile purger to various reluctant provinces." In 1937–38, he was First Secretary of the East Siberian regional party, based in Irkutsk . For part of 1938, he was First Secretary in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Late in 1938, he became First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Party Committee in 1938, a post he held until his death. During the German-Soviet War , Shcherbakov served as

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408-760: The Institute of Red Professors . In 1932, he was transferred to party headquarters in Moscow. In 1934, after Zhdanov had moved to Moscow to take charge of the party's cultural policies, Shcherbakov was appointed head of the Cultural-Education department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , and, after the first Soviet Writers' Congress , in August 1934, he was appointed First Secretary of

442-554: The Union of Soviet Writers , although he "was not a writer but a full-time party apparatchik , and had not even been a Congress delegate." This meant that he ran the union, while the writer Maxim Gorky held the honorary position of chairman. Following the latter's death in 1936, Shcherbakov was transferred back to full time party work as Second Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee, under Zhdanov. During

476-403: The 2010 Census, ethnic Russians at 3,109,661 made up 95.1% of the oblast's population. Other ethnic groups included Tatars (44,103, or 1.4%), Mordva (19,138, or 0.6%), Ukrainians (17,657, or 0.5%), and various smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the total. Additionally, 42,349 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It

510-899: The Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the Gorky Oblast was renamed the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. On April 21, 1992, the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia approved the decision of the presidium of the parliament to rename the region, amending Art. 71 of the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1978, which entered into force on May 16, 1992. During the Soviet period, the high authority in

544-579: The Gorky Territory (in honor of the writer Maxim Gorky). On December 5, 1936, the Gorky Territory was transformed into the Gorky Oblast (the Mari and Chuvash Republics were taken from the former territory). On January 7, 1954, the Arzamas Oblast was separated from the Gorky Oblast. On April 23, 1957, the Arzamas Oblast was abolished, and its territory was returned to the Gorky Oblast. On October 22, 1990, by

578-481: The Oblast administration, and eventually the governor, was appointed/elected alongside the elected regional parliament . The Charter of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is the fundamental law of the region. The Legislative Assembly of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is the province's standing legislative (representative) body. The Legislative Assembly exercises its authority by passing laws, resolutions, and other legal acts and by supervising

612-585: The Slavic countries and the organization of its support among the Slavic communities in allied and neutral states. From 1942, the Committee published the magazine Slavs . The committee's work was carried out by holding all-Slavic anti-fascist rallies and radio rallies (more than 70 in 1943–44), publishing and distributing propaganda documents (more than 20,000 articles and various materials were sent abroad in 1942–46), and organizing weekly Slavic radio broadcasts. countries, maintaining ties with Slavic organizations in

646-600: The United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Latin America. At the end of 1945, the committee maintained ties with 130 foreign Slavic organizations. With the liberation of the Slavic countries from fascist occupation, they formed national Slavic committees. In 1947 Committee was reorganized into the Slavic Committee of the USSR. In 1949, the financing of the committee was almost halved compared to 1947–1948, but in 1950

680-406: The committee was allocated more money, since a team (more than 20 people) of the anti-Tito newspaper of Yugoslav emigrants Za socijalističku Jugoslaviju ('For Socialist Yugoslavia') was assigned to it. Thus, the Committee became involved in the anti-Tito informbiro period . In 1951, the staff of the committee were reduced. From that point the main activity of the committee was the publication of

714-599: The course of the regional reform of Peter I in 1708, Nizhny Novgorod with the surrounding lands was added to the Kazan Governorate . In 1714, the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate was created. On January 14, 1929, the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast was formed. On July 15 of the same year, it was transformed into the Nizhny Novgorod Territory. On October 7, 1932, the Nizhny Novgorod Territory was renamed

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748-584: The death of Gundorov. Among committee founders were prominent figures such as: Dmitry Shostakovich , Zdeněk Nejedlý , Oleksandr Korniychuk , Pavlo Tychyna , Alexander Dovzhenko , Anatoly Lavrentyev , Alexey Tolstoy , Yanka Kupała , Yakub Kolas , Alexander Fadeev , Wanda Wasilewska , Władysław Broniewski , Leon Chwistek , Óndra Łysohorsky and others. Aleksandr Shcherbakov (20th-century politician) Aleksandr Sergeyevich Shcherbakov ( Russian : Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Щербако́в ; 10 October [ O.S. 27 September] 1901 – 10 May 1945)

782-658: The following year the town of Rybinsk was renamed Shcherbakov in his honour (its original name was restored in 1957). In January 1953, TASS announced that he had been murdered, a victim of the Doctors' plot . This story was discredited later that same year, after Stalin's death . The real causes of Shcherbakov's death were obesity and excessive drinking. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn knew Shcherbakov's former chauffeur, from whom he learnt that "the obese Shcherbakov hated to see people around when he arrived at his Informburo, so they temporarily removed all those who were working in

816-814: The head of the political directorate of the Red Army (with the rank of colonel general ) in Moscow , and at the same time was director of the Soviet Information Bureau . According to Antony Beevor's book, Stalingrad, The Fateful Siege: 1942–1943 , "One of the richest sources in the Russian Ministry of Defence central archive at Podolsk consists of the very detailed reports sent daily from the Stalingrad Front to Aleksandr Shcherbakov." Shcherbakov died of heart failure on 10 May 1945, right after Victory Day , and

850-545: The implementation and observance of the laws and other legal acts passed by it. The highest executive body is the Oblast Government, which includes territorial executive bodies such as district administrations, committees, and commissions that facilitate development and run the day to day matters of the province. The Oblast administration supports the activities of the Governor who is the highest official and acts as guarantor of

884-506: The magazine Slavs . In May 1958, the Central Committee of the CPSU decided to close the Slavs magazine. After the closure of the magazine Slavs the staff of the committee was reduced, and its activities were reduced to the reception of foreign tourists. In March 1962, the staff of the committee was reduced to 1 person, which in fact was its closure. Formally, the committee was not liquidated until

918-534: The oblast as of June 1, 2006 was estimated to be over 22,000. According to a 2012 survey 69.2% of the population of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church , 2% are unaffiliated generic Christians , 2% are Orthodox Christian believers without belonging to any church or members of other Orthodox churches , and 1% are adherents of the Slavic native faith (Rodnovery). In addition, 15% of

952-466: The oblast was shared between three persons: the first secretary of the Nizhny Novgorod (then Gorki) CPSU Committee (who in reality had the greatest authority); the chairman of the oblast Soviet (legislative power); and the chairman of the oblast Executive Committee (executive power). After the abolition of Article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR in March 1990, the CPSU lost its monopoly on power. The head of

986-690: The observance of the oblast Charter in accordance with the Constitution of Russia . The unique architectural construction—the 128-meter (420 ft) steel lattice hyperboloid tower built by the Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov in 1929—is located near the town of Dzerzhinsk on the left bank of the Oka River . Population : 3,119,115 ( 2021 Census ) ; 3,310,597 ( 2010 Census ) ; 3,524,028 ( 2002 Census ) ; 3,714,322 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . According to

1020-462: The offices he had to walk through. Grunting because of his fat, he would lean down and pull up a corner of the carpet. The whole Informburo caught it if he found any dust there." Nikita Khrushchev , who had a very negative attitude towards him and considered Shcherbakov to be "a poisonous snake" and "one of the most contemptible characters around Stalin " wrote that "Shcherbakov ended up drinking himself to death – and he drank not so much because he had

1054-418: The population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 10% is atheist , and 0.8% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question. The oblast ranks seventh in Russia in industrial output. Processing industries predominate in the local economy. More than 650 industrial companies employ nearly 700,000 people, or 62% of the workforce involved in material production. Industry generates 83% of

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1088-400: The regional GDP and accounts for 89% of all material expenditures. The leading sectors are engineering and metalworking, followed by chemical and petrochemical industries and forestry, woodworking, and paper industries. The first three sectors account for about 75% of all industrial production. The oblast has traditionally been attractive to investors. In 2002, Moody's rating agency confirmed

1122-537: Was a Soviet politician and statesman who was a wartime head of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army as well as the director of the Soviet Information Bureau . Shcherbakov was born into a working-class family in Ruza , near Moscow. The family moved to Rybinsk after his father's death in 1907. After primary school, he was sent to work as an apprentice, at the age of 12, in a Rybinsk print works. He

1156-691: Was sent to work in a factory at the age of 10. He joined the Red Guards in 1917, and joined the Communist Party in 1918. He worked for Komsomol in Rybinsk during the Russian Civil War . In 1921–24, he studied at Sverdlov University, Moscow. In 1924, he started work as a party official in Nizhny Novgorod , where he gained the trust of the provincial party boss, Andrei Zhdanov . In 1930–32, he studied at

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