Mikhail Vasilyevich Khrunichev was a Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 statesman, lieutenant-general in the technical and engineering corps (1944), who was awarded the title of Soviet Hero of Socialist Labour in 1945.

Krunichev became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...

  in 1921. He was Minister of Aviation Industry

Ministry of Aviation Industry (Soviet Union)

The People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry of the USSR was the central office in the Soviet Union, the equivalent of a ministry, which oversaw production of the aviation industry....

 from 1946, and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1955 to 1957 and again in 1961.