Yakov Fyodorovich Savchenko

Yakov Fyodorovich Savchenko ( Russian Яков Фёдорович Савченко ; Ukrainian Яків Федорович Савченко / Jakiw Fedorowytsch Savchenko born October 23, ^jul. / 5. November  1913 ^greg. In Iwot , Ujesd Novhorod-Siverskyi ; † 26. September 1984 in Biysk ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet chemist .

Life

Savchenko was the son of a poor peasant family and his youth were overshadowed by the Russian Civil War . Savchenko studied at Chemically -Technologischen pilot Schostka with completion in 1932 and then worked in Sverdlov - chemical plant in Dzerzhinsk . There he rose to become vice director. During the German-Soviet War he was involved in the supply of ammunition. In 1949 he became director of the chemical plant in Pavlohrad . In 1951 he completed a mechanical engineering degree from the Leningrad Industrial Institute. From 1954 to 1959 he managed the important ammunition factory in Cheboksary .

In 1959, Savchenko became director of the newly organized and defense research institute No. 9 in Biysk , which in 1969 became the Altai Research Institute of Chemical Technology. Under his leadership, the institute became a research and development center for fuels and explosives , the so-called high energy materials , and for plastics . In 1967 he received his doctorate as a candidate in chemical sciences . In 1980 he was appointed professor. After his death in 1984, Gennady Sakovich was his successor. Since 2010, the Altai Institute has been a joint stock company with a much expanded production spectrum within the joint stock company Moskowski Institut Teplotechniki (MIT) (Moscow Institute for Thermal Engineering ), which builds missile systems .

Savchenko initiated and promoted the construction of sports and cultural facilities in Biysk. A Titov monument can also be traced back to him. The construction of a swimming stadium was interrupted by his death. A children's home for technical work bears his name. There are busts of Savchenko in Bijsk in the Leonida Garkawowo Park and in front of the Altai Institute and in his birthplace.

Honors

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1942, 1952)
• Order of the Red Star (1945)
• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
• Order of Lenin (1966, 1971)
• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1967)
• Hero of Socialist Labor with an Order of Lenin and a Hammer and Sickle Gold Medal (1971)
• Lenin Prize (1976)
• Honorary Citizen of Biysk (1980)
• Order of Lenin with hammer and sickle gold medal (1983)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Landeshelden: Савченко Яков Фёдорович (accessed October 17, 2017).
2. ↑ Аэрокосмический портал Украины, Исполнилось 95 лет Я. Ф. Савченко: САВЧЕНКО Яков Федорович (accessed October 17, 2017).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Музей Савченко: Яков Савченко (accessed October 17, 2017).