Serafim Kolpakov (russian: Серафим Колпаков; 1933–2011) was a Soviet engineer who served as minister of metallurgy in the 1980s. He was a member of the

central committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

of the Soviet Communist Party.

Biography

Kolpakov was born in

Lipetsk Lipetsk ( rus, links=no, Липецк, p=ˈlʲipʲɪtsk), also romanized as Lipeck, is a city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh River in the Don basin, southeast of Moscow. Populatio ...

Lipetsk Oblast Lipetsk Oblast (russian: Липецкая область, Lipetskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Lipetsk. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,173,513. Geography Lipets ...

, 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) (russian: Национальный исследовательский технологический университет МИСиС) is a public technological university in the field ...

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 (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...

, 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 (russian: Троекуровское кладбище, Troyekurovskoye kladbishche), alternatively known as ''Novo-Kuntsevo Cemetery'' (russian: Ново-Кунцевское кладбище, Novo-Kuntsevskoye kladbishch ...

in Moscow.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolpakov, Serafim 20th-century Russian engineers 21st-century Russian engineers 1933 births 2011 deaths Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members 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