Penza, 18 October 2013. PenzaNews. The solemn opening ceremony of the business incubator of the office-industrial type “Parshin” dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the city was held in Lenin St. on Friday, October 18.

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The event, which was conducted as part of the first all-Russian conference and seminar dedicated to the development of Centers of Youth Innovative Creativity, was attended by Natalia Larionova, the director of the department for small and medium-sized enterprises of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia; Yuri Krivov, the chairman of the Penza region government; Sherry Lassiter, the program manager at Center for Bits and Atoms in Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ruslan Gulyaev, the minister of education of the Penza region at interim; Yuri Golodyaev, the head of education department of Penza, and heads of Centers of Youth Innovative Creativity.

Yuri Krivov said during the briefing that the business incubator with the total square of 4 thousand square meters compiles huge industrial premises and 21 offices for a hundred of work places.

“My colleagues and I decided that the business incubator should be named after Peter Ivanovich Parshin – the man, who started big industry in Penza in 1940s-1950s. Recognizing his merits it would be righteous to name this infrastructure building after him,” the chairman of the Penza region government said.

He also remarked that putting the object into operation is the final stage of building business incubators’ chain in Penza.

“In the first quarter of the next year the building with the square of 10 thousand square meters should be reconstructed and fully equipped in Kuznetsk. It would be shaped to meet the needs of the factories of furniture cluster mostly, which is localized there. Further development will require their fulfillment. In general, the concept of the chain development implies that business angel investors will be part of it, and it is the prospective task to raise their community,” Yuri Krivov said.

In addition, he mentioned that last year all the residents of the Penza business-incubators paid taxes 2,5 times as much as the year before.

“In absolute terms these figures are quite modest, just tens of million rubles, but the dynamics is right,” the chairman of the government of the Penza region concluded.

Peter Ivanovich Parshin is a Soviet statesman, the laureate of the Stalin State Prize, the Colonel General of the engineering and technical services.

He was born on 4 (16 October) in 1899 at Boejkovo station (nowadays Belinskaya station, Kamenka town, the Penza region) in the family of a railman.

In 1917, he finished the Penza Railway Technical School.

From March 1917, he worked as a technician on service on the Syzransko-Vyazmenskaya railway.

In 1922-1924, he studied in Petrograd Railway Polytechnic, after graduation he started working in the factory “Gosmetr” in Leningrad, where he worked his way up from a mechanic to a chief engineer.

From April 1927 to August 1937, he worked as the director of the weight plane “Gosmetr.” In 1928, he joined All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks. From August to December 1937, Peter was the head of the central administration of the people’s commissariat medium-sized machinery of the heavy industry in the USSR.

From February 1939, he served as people’s Commissar of general machinery of the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War he managed the sub artillery production in factories controlled by the people’s commissariat.

In February 1946, he became the head of the people’s commissariat of machinery and instrument engineering in the USSR, which he ran until January 1965 with a break in the period from March 1953 to April 1954.

From 1946 to 1950, he was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the second convocation.

From 1956, Peter worked as the deputy minister of machinery of the USSR.
In 1957, he got retired.

He died on 11 October 1977 and was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.