Alexander Mikhailovich Koschurnikow

Alexander Mikhailovich Koschurnikow ( Russian Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Кошу́рников ; * March 13th ^July / 26th March  1905 ^greg. In Kharabali ; † November 3, 1942 in the Krasnoyarsk region ) was a Russian civil engineer and railroad engineer.

Life

Alexander Koschurnikow was the son of Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Koschurnikows, who explored the area for new railway lines to be built . In 1913 the family settled in Tomsk , so Alexander completed his high school education there. He then studied civil engineering at the Tomsk Polytechnic University . He spent the summers with his father, an enthusiastic hunter, in the Altai Mountains.

From 1930 Koschurnikow worked for the Novosibirsk Siberian Railway Construction Company as the head of a group of selected railway lines. In 1939 he became the exploration project leader of the SibTransProjekt .

1942 Koschurnikow led a group that belonged to the Alexei Zhuravlev and Konstantin Stofato and the route for the to-build railway from Abakan to Taishet explored. In the course of the work, the group had an accident on the Kasyr River . The scene of the accident did not become known until a year later, when a fisherman found the remains and Koschurnikov's diary. According to his last notes, he could not save his companions, and he saw no hope for himself in his soaked condition with no fire or food. His grave is on the right bank of the Tuba above Kuragino , while the memorial (with silver rails pointing into the sky) stands for the three casualties on the Kasyr. There is a memorial plaque at the research institute of SibGiProTrans (successor to SibTransProjekt ) in Novosibirsk.

In 1966 Koschurnikov was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin and his two collaborators received the Order of the Red Labor Banner . Three stops on the Abakan-Taischet route were named after them in their honor. A village near Kuragino and streets in Abakan, Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Bely Yar were named after Koschurnikow .

literature

• Diary of the expedition leader AM Koschurnikow . Sibir, Novosibirsk 1981, pp. 281-287 (Russian).
• MF Kokowichin: The route explorer Koschurnikow . Krasnojarsk 1996, 96 pp. (Russian).
• W. Tschiwilichin: The silver rails . Moscow 1960 (Russian).
• W. Tschiwilichin: In the whirlpools of the Kasyr . ( Small youth series No. 14/60)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Abakan-Taischet route (Russian, accessed March 5, 2016).
2. ^ OI Pjatow: On the ways of Koschurnikows (Russian, accessed on March 5, 2016).
3. ^ Koschurnikov's expedition (Russian, accessed March 5, 2016).
4. ↑ Novosibirsk's memorial plaques (Russian, accessed March 5, 2016).