Serafim Kolpakov (Russian: Серафим Колпаков; 10 January 1933 – 15 November 2011) was a Soviet engineer who served as minister of metallurgy in the 1980s.
[1] In the periods 1978-1979 and 1982-1985 Kolpakov served as deputy minister of ferrous metallurgy.
[1] In July 1985 he was appointed minister of ferrous metallurgy replacing Ivan Kazanets in the post.
[2] In 1992 Kolpakov was elected president of the International Union of Metallurgists[4] and became a member of the steering committee of a non-profit company, Russian Steel Consortium, in 2001.
[1] A funeral ceremony took place on 18 November, and he was buried at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow.