Firyubin Nikolai Pavlovich: Life and Career of a Party Leader

Firyubin Nikolai Pavlovich is one of the most famous statesmen of the times of the USSR. He became in a way a unique diplomat, because he was the only ambassador of the USSR, performing his diplomatic functions without the presence of his wife. Traditionally, the spouses of all ambassadors always accompanied them during the mission, but in this case the authorities made an exception for Firyubin, because his wife was Furtseva herself.

Firyubin Nikolay Pavlovich: the origin

Our hero was born in the distant 1908, that is, during the reign of Nicholas II, in the provincial town of Simbirsk. About his childhood and parents, information is almost not preserved. Nikolai Pavlovich began his labor activity very early - as early as 16 years. For that time, this was a common phenomenon, because after the revolution and the civil war many families lived very poorly, and even the children began to somehow earn their living. The future ambassador worked on the construction site. Work for a 16-year-old boy was not easy, because he had to work as a stonemason. In Simbirsk, he finishes school and eventually moves to Moscow.

Moscow period of Firyubin's life

In the late 1920s the country did not yet know who Firubin Nikolai Pavlovich was. The biography of our hero at this time is developing like this. In 1929, he joined the CPSU (b) and almost simultaneously became a student at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Probably, none of my relatives was particularly surprised that a promising young man chose the profession of a pilot, because the sky in those years attracted a lot of guys. Institute Firyubin graduated in 1935. After that, as a reliable and trusted communist worker who received good knowledge in the specialty, he is sent to Spain to work as an understudy at the Renault plant. The first foreign period of Firyubin's career lasted only 3 years, but during this time he had already acquired the skills of living a Soviet man in Western Europe.

Party and diplomatic work

After returning from Spain, Firiubin Nikolai Pavlovich was accepted for party work. Of course, at first he could not be taken to the highest positions, so from 1938 to 1940 he worked as the first secretary of the Kuntsevo (Moscow region) city committee of the CPSU (b). In Kuntsevo Firyubin very well organized the work of the party cell and the city executive committee in general, so in 1940 he was transferred to the post of secretary of the Moscow regional committee of the CPSU (B.).

During the war, Firubin Nikolai Pavlovich (photo above) did not leave the party work. For example, in 1943 he was appointed secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU (b). In addition, he worked in the structure of the State Defense Committee. Since he had a military specialty, Firyubin's knowledge was also useful at the front. He took part in the work of the military council of mortar units.

After the war, Firyubin continued to work in the Moscow City Executive Committee, and from 1953 (after the death of the "leader of the peoples" Stalin) was transferred to the "field" of diplomatic work. The rest of my life was spent traveling. Although our hero, at last, at this time arranged a personal life, his wife never, contrary to diplomatic traditions, accompanied him at work. It is interesting, for whose sake did the Soviet leadership resort to such violations? His wife was an "iron woman", Minister of Culture of the USSR Ekaterina Furtseva.

In the diplomatic field Firubin Nikolai Pavlovich managed to work as ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and chairman of one of the committees under the leadership of the ATS.

This great statesman died in 1983.