Famous People with Name Baiba

Baiba Skride            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Baiba Skride: is a Latvian violinist, who has received considerable acclaim. She was the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Contest in 2001[4][5], and has performed around the world. She was born into a musical Latvian family in Riga in 1981 where she began her studi

Baibars,            Origin/Culture/Country: Egyptian

Baibars,: was an important Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria. He was one of the commanders of the forces which inflicted a devastating defeat on the Seventh Crusade of King Louis IX of France and he led the vanguard of the Egyptian army at the pivotal Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260 [2] , which marked the first substantial defeat of the Mongol army.

Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov: was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished secondary school in 1928 and entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, from which he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer. In 1935, he was drafted into the armed forces. After completing his military service, he was appointed chief of an oilfield production department in an industrial complex in the USSR. Later, he was promoted to chief engineer, then general director. He was in charge of evacuating oil industry facilities to the eastern regions in the Nazi invasion era. Then he was appointed as narkom of the oil Industry of the USSR in 1944 till 1946. Because of his success in the planning of the oil industry sector of the Soviet Union and experience in economics, he was appointed as the head of Gosplan (State Planning Committee) of the USSR twice (1955–1957, 1965–1985).