About the book: 2009 / Boris Evdokimovich Shcherbina - Hero of Socialist Labor, Minister of Construction of Oil and Gas Industry Enterprises of the USSR, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, in 1951– In 1973, he headed first the Irkutsk, then the Tyumen regional committee of the party, the formation and development of the country's fuel and energy complex is associated with his name. In April 1986, he headed the Government Commission for eliminating the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in December 1988 - the commission for eliminating the consequences of the terrible earthquakes in Armenia. He organically combined the qualities of a great politician and a brilliant organizer, which allowed him to become not only an extraordinary person, but also a major political figure.