Boris Shcherbina

Boris Shcherbina
Boris Shcherbina
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
	In office; 13 January 1984 – 7 June 1989
Chairman	Nikolai Tikhonov; Nikolai Ryzhkov;
Minister of Construction of the Oil and Gas Industries
	In office; 11 December 1973 – 13 January 1984
Chairman	Alexei Kosygin; Nikolai Tikhonov;
Preceded by	Aleksei K. Kortunov [ru]
Succeeded by	Vladimir G. Chirskov [ru]
Personal details
Born	5 October 1919; Debaltsevo, Ukrainian SSR
Died	22 August 1990 (aged 70); Moscow, Russian SFSR
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery
Spouse(s)	Raisa Pavlovna Shcherbina
Children	Yuri Borisovich Shcherbina
Occupation	Railway engineer
Known for	Crisis management of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and 1988 Armenian earthquake; Chairman of the Chernobyl Commission
Awards	Hero of Socialist Labor
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service years	1939–1942
Conflict	Russo-Finnish War

Boris Yevdokimovich Shcherbina (Ukrainian: Борис Євдокимович Щербина; 5 October 1919 – 22 August 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician. He was a vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1989. He was in charge of Soviet crisis management of two major catastrophes: the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1988 Armenian earthquake.^[1]^[2]

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