Sergei Yakovlevich Schuk

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Sergei Schuk (1920s)

Sergei Jakowlewitsch Schuk ( Russian Сергей Яковлевич Жук , scientific transliteration Sergej Jakovlevič Žuk ; * 23 March July / 4 April  1892 greg. In Kiev , Russian Empire ; † March 1, 1957 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet hydraulic engineer .

biography

Schuk came from a middle-class Ukrainian family. He attended the 2nd Kiev high school, after the death of his father he was enrolled in the Orlovsk Cadet Corps. In 1914 he enrolled in the Petrograd Institute for Civil Engineers, a year later he moved to the St. Petersburg State University of Transportation. Due to the great losses that the Russian army suffered in fighting with German troops (→ Eastern Front (First World War) ), Schuk was forcibly drafted and transferred to the Alexeijew School for Pioneers in Kiev, whose training he completed in November 1916. Then Schuk did military service in a pioneer battalion in Siberia.

During the Russian Civil War , Schuk was in Admiral Kolchak's army until 1919. After Kolchak's defeat, Schuk was captured by the Bolsheviks. Shortly thereafter, Schuk joined the Red Army. After the end of the civil war, Schuk remained in the Red Army and was an instructor at the Kamenev Military School, the Sumsk Artillery School and the Poltava Infantry School.

Leading persons during the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal . Schuk is 2nd from the right. (July 1932)

On January 10, 1931, he was arrested by the OPGU on suspicion of belonging to a counterrevolutionary officers' organization and during the year he was employed in the gulag to build the White Sea-Baltic Canal . On July 14, 1932, Schuk was released and he continued to take part in the construction of the canal as deputy gulag chief engineer, dealing with questions of hydraulic engineering .

In December 1933 Schuk became chief engineer for the construction of the Moskva-Volga Canal , and by 1937 the projects of the Rybinsk Reservoir , the Uglich hydropower plant and the Ivankovsk hydropower plant were added. Later Schuk was responsible for the construction of the Kuibyshev hydropower plant, the construction of the Volga-Don complex and the Zimlyansk hydropower plant.

After Shuk's death, his urn was buried on the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

reception

Alexander Solzhenitsyn called Schuk in his book The Archipelago GULAG together with Semjon Firin , Matwei Berman , Naftali Frenkel , Lasar Kogan and Jakow Rappoport a "hired murderer who [in the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal] has at least thirty thousand lives on his conscience" . After the end of the Soviet Union, this statement was presented as wrong, for example in the publication "The History of Hydroprojekt 1930 - 2000." . Solzhenitsyn then deleted Shuk's name so that he is no longer mentioned in later editions of the "GuLag Archipelago" .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solzhenitsyn: Der Archipel GULAG , Rowohlt, 1978, Volume 2, p. 94

Remarks

  1. ↑ Not to be confused with Lasar Moissejewitsch Kaganowitsch .

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personal data
SURNAME Schuk, Sergei Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Жук, Сергей Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian hydraulic engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1957
Place of death Moscow , Soviet Union