Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov (russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич Архи́пов;

Kaluga Kaluga ( rus, Калу́га, p=kɐˈɫuɡə), a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast in Russia, stands on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Population: Kaluga's most famous resident, the space travel pioneer Konstantin Tsiol ...

, – Moscow, 28 February 1998) was a Soviet and Russian statesman who was First Deputy of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1986. In 1950 Stalin sent him as an economic adviser to China, where he spent much of the next 10 years.Julian Gewirtz, ''Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China'' p. 128

Honours and awards

Hero of Socialist Labour The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

(1977) * Five Orders of Lenin * Order of the October Revolution * Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice

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1907 births 1997 deaths People from Kaluga People from Kaluzhsky Uyezd Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union Ninth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Tenth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Eleventh convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Russian communists Soviet expatriates in China Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery {{USSR-politician-stub