Alexei Larionov is a Soviet party leader, secretary of Yaroslavsky, and then Ryazan regional committee of the CPSU. It went down in history as a "hostage" of the Khrushchev competition with the ambitious slogan "Catch up and overtake America!" Failing to fulfill the plan to increase meat production, Larionov committed suicide.
Biography: early years
Alexei Nikolaevich Larionov was born on August 19, 1907 in the village of Gribanovka, near Arkhangelsk. His parents were poor peasants. At 13, Larionov joined the ranks of the Komsomol, and then joined the Communist Party. For 10 years, he became a secretary of the county committee from a simple member.
Larionov served in the border troops. In 1931 he took an active part in suppressing the actions of peasants against collectivization in the Caucasus. For this I received a letter and a valuable gift. A year later, Larionov took the chair of the head of the party’s Arkhangelsk division.
In 1933 he was sent to the Vinnitsa region, where he headed the newly created political department of the machine-tractor station (MTS). After working there for two years, Larionov entered the Institute of the Red Professor, in which the party trained ideological cadres.
Career
After the institute, Larionov was sent to the Yaroslavl region, where he soon became the first secretary of the party. During the war, Alexei Nikolaevich headed the Department of Defense. Largely thanks to him, Yaroslavl uninterruptedly supplied the army with defense products and provisions.
In 1948, the party sent Larionov to Ryazanshchina, which at that time was far behind other areas. Over 10 years, Aleksey Nikolaevich led the region into leaders: three universities and several dozen enterprises were opened, about 50 thousand houses were erected, almost half of the collective farms were electrified. In milk yield, Ryazanschina occupied the first place in the Union.
The then Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev was impressed by similar results. At that time, he was trying at all costs to “catch up and overtake” the States. Khrushchev chose the Ryazan region for his next ambitious agricultural experiment to triple meat production in a year. Larionov could not refuse the Secretary General, especially since he had in advance awarded him the Order of Lenin and the gold medal of the Hero of Socialist Labor. Then Alexei Nikolaevich did not know that he would pay for these awards with his own life.
In 1959, Ryazanians fulfilled the plan for meat. Here are just the treasured figures were achieved due to the machinations of Larionov, who did not want to face the dirt. The following year, the number of livestock in the Ryazan region fell by 70%. It was already impossible to hide the real state of affairs from Khrushchev. Larionov fired a bullet in his office. And his fraud went down in history as a "Ryazan miracle." Despite the scam, thousands of residents came to Larionov’s funeral.
