Ivan Nosenko

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| order = Minister of Shipbuilding Industry of the USSR

| term_start = 19 April 1954

| term_end = 2 August 1956

| premier = Georgy Malenkov

Nikolai Bulganin

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| birth_date = 19 April 1902

| birth_place = Berlevets, Bryansky Uyezd, Russian Empire

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Ivan Isidorovich Nosenko ({{Langx|ru|Иван Исидорович Носенко}}; 19 April 1902 – 2 August 1956) was a Soviet politician and from 1939 until his death in 1956. He was the People's Commissar for Shipbuilding of the USSR. He was the father of notable Soviet defector and KGB officer, Yuri Nosenko.

Biography

Nosenko was born in the village of Berlevets in Bryansky Uyezd and joined the Nikolayev Shipyard as a messenger boy in 1914. He became a trade unionist, and after completing military service and graduating from the Nikolayev Shipbuilding Institute, returned to the yard as a manager. Nosenko joined the All-Union Communist Party (b) in 1925. Between 1938 and 1939 he was the managing director of the Baltic Yard in Leningrad. He was appointed Narkom (minister) of shipbuilding in 1940 and was also the 1st deputy commissar of the tank industry during the war. He was elected to the Supreme Soviet in 1954.

He died on August 2nd 1956. At his funeral, important leaders of the Soviet Union, including Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Kliment Voroshilov, formed the honor guard.[http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diary/nosenko.htm Yuri Nosenko: Oswald's KGB Supervisor] He has been commemorated with a bronze plaque in the Kremlin wall.[http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12051491 Yuri Nosenko], The Economist, Sep 4th 2008

Awards and honors

Three Orders of Lenin
Order of Nakhimov, 1st class (1945)
Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Star (1942)
Order of the Badge of Honour (1938)

Ivan Nosenko

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