Serafim Kolpakov (; 10 January 1933 – 15 November 2011) was a Soviet engineer who served as minister of metallurgy in the 1980s. He was a member of the central committee of the

Soviet Communist Party The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...

Biography

Kolpakov was born in

Lipetsk Lipetsk (, ), also Romanization of Russian, romanized as Lipeck, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh (river), Voronezh River in the Do ...

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, on 10 January 1933. He graduated from the Lipetsk Mining and Metallurgical College and the

Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys The National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) () is a public technological university in the field of steelmaking and metallurgy, based in Moscow, Russia. It was established in 1918 as a part of the Moscow Mining Academy. In 1930 ...

obtaining a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineer. He also received his PhD in technical sciences. Following his graduation he worked at the Ashinsky Metallurgical Plant in the

Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast; , is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Chel ...

, at the Lipetsk Tractor Plant, and then at the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant. In the periods 1978-1979 and 1982-1985 Kolpakov served as deputy minister of ferrous metallurgy. In July 1985 he was appointed minister of ferrous metallurgy replacing Ivan Kazanets in the post. Kolpakov's tenure continued until 1989, and in the period 1989-1990 he was the minister of metallurgy. He also served at the central committee of the Communist Party. In 1992 Kolpakov was elected president of the International Union of Metallurgists and became a member of the steering committee of a non-profit company, Russian Steel Consortium, in 2001. Kolpakov died of heart attack on 15 November 2011. A funeral ceremony took place on 18 November, and he was buried at the

Troyekurovskoye cemetery The Troyekurovo Cemetery (), alternatively known as ''Novo-Kuntsevo Cemetery'' (), is a cemetery in Moscow, Russia. The cemetery is located in the former village of Troyekurovo on the western edge of Moscow, which derives its name from the Troye ...

in Moscow.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kolpakov, Serafim 20th-century Russian engineers 21st-century Russian engineers 1933 births 2011 deaths Members of the Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Members of the Central Committee of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union Soviet engineers Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery People from Lipetsk National University of Science and Technology MISiS alumni