Mikhail Konstantinowitsch Kurako
Mikhail Konstantinovich Kurako ( Russian Михаил Константинович Курако ; born September 23 . Jul / 5. October 1872 greg. In the village Koselje, governorates Mogilev (now Rajon Krasnapolle ); † 8. February 1920 in Kuznetsk ) was a Russian Metallurg .
Life
Kurako grew up on the country estate of his grandfather General Arzymowitsch in the Mogilev governorate. Kurako's father had been a colonel in the Crimean War . Kurako attended the Polotsk Cadet Institute .
In 1890 Kurako began his professional activity in Yekaterinoslav at the blast furnace of the South Russian Alexander Smelting Works of the Brjansk Joint Stock Company . He first drove the hunt with 1000 kg of ore and then took liquid slag and iron samples for analysis as a sampler . Eventually he became a Schmelzer assistant. In 1892 he switched to the Gdanzewka cast iron works in the district of Cherson as a smelter and in 1896 became shift supervisor . In 1898 he moved to the Mariupol plant, where he became head master in 1900, replacing the American Kennedy. He independently studied physics and chemistry as well as English based on the French he had learned earlier .
In 1903 Kurako became head of the blast furnace at the Kramatorsk iron and steel works, despite not having completed a university degree. He was one of the first Russian blast furnace specialists alongside the many foreign specialists. He began to design blast furnaces, and the Kurako blow nozzles, channels and cooling systems were soon used in all blast furnaces in southern Russia. The first Russian blast furnace with an integrated inclined elevator was built according to Kurako's design. At the same time he developed an improved furnace charging system.
During the revolution of 1905 Kurako took part in the unrest, after which he was exiled in 1906 in the Vologda governorate . In 1908 he was able to return to Donbass . He became blast furnace boss assistant in the Donetsk smelting works and in 1913 again blast furnace boss. Here he founded a blast-opener school, the Kurako Academy , from which eminent engineers and scientists emerged , including IP Bardin and GJ Kasarnowski . In 1913 he moved to the Jenakiev smelting works as head of the blast furnace . In 1916 he returned to the Donetsk smelting works.
In 1917 Kurako received an offer from Kopikus-Aktiengesellschaft to design and build a steel works in Kuzbass . This gave him the opportunity to build the first fully mechanized blast furnace in Russia. In Tomsk he was in charge of designing the Kuznetsk metallurgical plant. In 1918 he began to write a book on blast furnace construction, which was published in Jenakieve after his death. During another secondment to Kuznetsk, he fell ill with typhus , from which he died. The steelworks was then built in 1929-1936 by his student and colleague Bardin.
The central prospectus in Novokuznetsk is named after Kurako . Streets in Donetsk, Yenakiyev, Kramatorsk, Magnitogorsk , Mariupol, Lipetsk and Mogilev bear his name . His monument was erected in front of the blast furnace of the Yenakiev smelting works. In 1966 the Guryevsk metallurgical plant was named Kurakos.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Kurako Michail Konstantinowitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ a b Donetsk: Курако Михаил Константинович (accessed on March 18, 2017).
- ↑ Курако М .: План доменного цеха . Yenakieve 1921.
- ↑ Проспект Курако (accessed March 18, 2017).
- ↑ Памятник Михаилу Курако ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 18, 2017).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kurako, Michail Konstantinowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Курако, Михаил Константинович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian metallurgist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koselje, Mogilev Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1920 |
| Place of death | Kuznetsk |