Pyotr Dementyev

Pyotr Vasilyevich Dementyev was a Soviet statesman who served twice as Minister of Aviation Industry from 1953 to 1957 and again from 1965 until his death in 1977 overseeing the post-war shift to jet and large-scale civil production in the USSR's aircraft sector. He held the rank of colonel general engineer (1976), was twice named Hero of Socialist Labour, and sat on the CPSU Central Committee while serving as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet.