Efim Slavsky

Efim Slavsky
Ефим Славский
E. P. Slavsky (1898–1991)
Minister of Medium Machine-Building
In office
24 July 1957  22 November 1986
PremierNikolai Ryzhkov
Nikolai Tikhonov
Alexei Kosygin
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Preceded byMikhail Pervukhin
Succeeded byLev Ryabev
People's Commissar for Non-Ferrous Metallurgy
In office
1945–1946
Personal details
Born(1898-11-07)7 November 1898
Dmytriivsk, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire
Died28 November 1991(1991-11-28) (aged 93)
Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery
Citizenship Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
Alma materMoscow Institute of Nonferrous Metals
OccupationPolitician, engineer
CabinetBulganin, Khrushchev, Kosygin, Tikhonov, Ryzhkov
AwardsLenin Prize (1980)
Stalin Prize
(1949, 1951, 1984)
Star of Peoples' Friendship (1978)
Hero of Socialist Labor
(1949, 1951, 1962)

Efim Pavlovich Slavsky (Russian: Ефим Павлович Славский, Ukrainian: Юхим Павлович Славський; romanized: Yefim Pavlovich Slavskiy, Yukhym Pavlovych Slavskyi; 7 November 1898 – 28 November 1991) was a Soviet-Ukrainian politician and engineer best known for his role in liquidating the Kyshtym and Chernobyl nuclear accidents in the Soviet Union.

Before his political appointment, Slavsky worked as an engineer in the Soviet nuclear weapons program, where he became one of the senior program managers. Slavsky was later tasked with leading the Ministry of Medium Machine-Building, overseeing the Soviet nuclear program from 1956 until his forced retirement in 1986.