Oleg Dmitriyevich Baklanov (Ukrainian & Russian: Олег Дмитриевич Бакланов; 17 March 1932 – 28 July 2021^[1]) was a Soviet politician, and high functionary in government and industry. He was a scientist and businessman. As Minister of General Machine Building, he was responsible for the Soviet space industry during the 1980s.

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Oleg Baklanov
Олег Бакланов
Baklanov in 2018
Minister of General Machine Building
In office 8 April 1983 – 25 March 1988
Premier	Nikolai Tikhonov, Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Sergey Afanasyev
Succeeded by	Vitaly Doguzhiyev
Full member of the 28th Politburo
In office 14 July 1990 – 29 August 1991
Secretary of the 28th Central Committee
In office 18 February 1988 – 25 April 1991
Member of the 27th Secretariat
In office 18 February 1988 – 14 July 1990
Personal details
Born	(1932-03-17)17 March 1932 Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Died	28 July 2021(2021-07-28) (aged 89) Moscow, Russia
Resting place	Federal Military Memorial Cemetery
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Spouse	Lilia Fedorovna Baklanova
Alma mater	MIREA – Russian Technological University

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Baklanov worked in an instrument engineering factory in Kharkov, Soviet Ukraine, and later became chief of the factory. He was appointed Engineering Industry Minister of the Soviet Union in 1983 and was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet from 1981 to 1991.

Baklanov was a secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from February 1988 to April 1991^[2][3] and was responsible for defense issues in this role. He was a member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.^[4]

From March until his arrest on August 23, 1991, he was the First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Council under the President of the Soviet Union^[3][5] (he was formally dismissed from office a month after his arrest^[6]).

Baklanov was brutally beaten and arrested by the security police for his role in the 1991 coup d'état attempt.^[7] He was released on recognizance not to leave in January 1993^[8] and amnestied by the State Duma in 1994.^[9] After his release, he became the chairman of the board of governors at the Rosobshemash company.^[10]

Baklanov died on 28 July 2021, and was buried in the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery on 30 July.^[11] Prior to his death he was the last surviving member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency.

• Hero of Socialist Labour (1976)
• Order of Lenin (1976)
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice
• Order of the Badge of Honour (1960)
• Lenin Prize (1982)
• Chairman of the Society of Friendship and cooperation between the peoples of Ukraine and Russia
• Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Tsiolkovsky
• International Academy of Information Technology
• Academician of the Academy of Security, Defence and Law Enforcement.