14 Facts About Vyacheslav Malyshev

Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Malyshev was a Soviet politician and an engineer who was one of the senior program managers in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons during the 1940s and 1950s.

Vyacheslav Malyshev was instrumental in militarizing the Soviet space program while he played a crucial role in Russian development of the nuclear submarines for the former Soviet Navy.

The family moved to Velikiye Luki in 1904 after Vyacheslav Malyshev's father accepted another teaching job.

Vyacheslav Malyshev graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1934 and began working at the Kuybyshev Locomotive Factory, where he moved from designer to director in under five years.

In 1939, Vyacheslav Malyshev was appointed to the Ministry of Heavy Machine Building but turned down the role, saying he was not yet ready.

Vyacheslav Malyshev took on the role of Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union in 1940 as well.

Vyacheslav Malyshev had jokingly been called the "Prince of Tankograd" for a number of years because of the engineering progress he made.

Vyacheslav Malyshev was a favorite of Stalin's and was called upon frequently for counsel.

Vyacheslav Malyshev did, at some point, head the nuclear program alongside Boris Vannikov.

Vyacheslav Malyshev was among the engineers that built the Soviet's first nuclear submarine.

Vyacheslav Malyshev's ashes are buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

Vyacheslav Malyshev was a Laureate of the USSR State Prize for overseeing the first nuclear and hydrogen charges, the first nuclear power plant, the first nuclear ship, and the first satellite of the Earth.

Vyacheslav Malyshev received the Hero of Socialist Labour Award for his work on tanks in 1944.

Vyacheslav Malyshev was awarded with the Order of Lenin on 16 December 1952.