Editing Konstantin Rudnev (section)

==Career==
In 1940 Rudnev joined the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]].<ref name=warh/> During [[World War II]] he served as the director of a [[Ammunition|munitions]] plant.<ref name=sid20>{{cite book|author=Asif A. Siddiqi|title=Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974|pages=91,113,178|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=2000|isbn=978-0-16-061305-0|location=Washington, DC
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5pQ9AQAAMAAJ|author-link=Asif Azam Siddiqi}}</ref> On 8 August 1950 he was named as the head of a science and research institute, NII 88, replacing Major General Lev R. Gonor in the post.<ref name=sid20/> In May 1952 Rudnev was appointed deputy [[Ministry of Armaments (Soviet Union)|minister of armaments]] under [[Dmitry Ustinov]].<ref name=sid20/> The [[Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Defense]] was renamed as the State Committee for Defense Technology in May 1958, and Rudnev was named as its chairman.<ref name=sid20/> 

In 1961 Rudnev became a member of the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam|central committee of the Communist Party]].<ref name=warh/> In June 1961 he was appointed [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|deputy premier]] responsible for research activities which he held until October 1965.<ref name=warh/><ref>{{cite news|title=Soviet Science Aide Sees Closer Links With France|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/18/archives/soviet-science-aide-sees-closer-links-with-france.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap|access-date=1 September 2022|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=17 February 1964|location=Paris}}</ref> Next he was appointed minister of instrument making, automated equipment, and control systems in October 1965.<ref name=bpeters/> He held the post until his death in August 1980.<ref name=bpeters>{{cite book|year=2016|author=Benjamin Peters|title=How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet|publisher=[[MIT Press]]|page=217|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=9780262334198
|doi=10.7551/mitpress/9780262034180.001.0001|url=https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262034180.001.0001}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Evan Mawdsley|author2=Stephen White|title=The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and its Members 1917-1991|year=2000|page=262
|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|author1-link=Evan Mawdsley|author2-link=Stephen White (political scientist)|location=Oxford
|doi=10.1093/0198297386.001.0001|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/0198297386.001.0001|isbn=9780191599842}}</ref>