12 December] 1910 – 17 March 1987)[1] was a communist politician in the Lithuanian SSR specializing in areas of industry, construction, and engineering.
[2] During World War II he served in the Red Army, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1945.
After the war he moved to Lithuania where he worked as deputy chairman of Vilnius and chairman of Kaunas committees of the Lithuanian Communist Party (1944–1950).
From 1955 to 1967 he worked as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party.
[3] After retirement from politics in 1981, he headed the Institute of Economy of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences until 1985.